Download Life Guide Can you remember the first time you had your heart broken? For those of you who are still kind of young maybe that hasn’t happened yet… But I’m talking about a time when someone you loved did something that completely destroyed a relationship with you. A friend who stabbed you in the […]
Have you ever been to a nice dinner where someone made things really… really… awkward? Maybe the way they were dressed, what they were saying, how they were acting… it just made everyone uneasy…? Now, while that’s not a whole lot of fun to deal with… have you ever stopped to consider that sometimes being […]
This weekend at Mount Olive we are welcoming in two new teachers who will be serving in our grade school. Nicole Beglinger and Amy Cain were trained at our college of ministry in New Ulm, they’ve taught in a number of schools in our Synod, and they bring that training and experience with them as […]
Download Life Guide It’s unbelievably easy for life to get unbearably busy. When life seems to be pulling you in so many different directions, how often do we take quiet time to sit at the feet of our Savior and listen to him speak to us in his Word? It’s easy to think of that […]
As I mentioned at the beginning of the service today this is week one of a new sermon series called Real-ationships make all the difference. If I did a quick poll today and asked you where your most important relationships were found, I’d be willing to guess most of you would say “the home.” And […]
Download Life Guide In the 1920s the economy was flourishing in the United States and business leaders were pouring their profits right back into industry. One of the leading companies, General Motors, was doing very well and their President, a man named John Jacob Raskob, wanted to extend his reach into the real estate world […]
Download Life Guide When I was going through school I remember hearing on more than one occasion stories of angels protecting God’s people. One of the more memorable stories I heard was one that Billy Graham had recorded in a book about angels. In this book he told the story of a pastor named John […]
Download Life Guide What is it that makes someone worthy in your opinion? This past Tuesday we were able to cast a vote in the presidential primary… deciding who we think is worthy of that office… who we think has the right character to sit in such a position of power… who we think is […]
Download Life Guide Well… I think I’ve covered enough ground in this letter… I think it’s time to remind you of what’s most important… to remind you why any of this letter I wrote even matters… I need to go back to that very first message I shared with you… back when I arrived in […]
Very often in life… timing is everything. If your timing is good… things will go well… if your timing is off a bit… it can be disastrous. A good example of this is what happened back in 2010 at a Houston Rockets basketball game. Many of you have probably seen a video of someone proposing […]