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- By Pastor Praveen Muthusamy, Hills United Reformed ChurchJanuary 21, 2026I cannot believe we are in the New Year already. Over the last year—four times to be precise—we have explored the vivid imagery of Hebrews 12:1-2, which describes the Christian life as a race. We have learned that we run surrounded by a "cloud of witnesses" who prove God is faithful. We have been challenged to lay aside "weights"—those hindrances like excessive news or worldly distractions—and to…
- January 21, 2026St. Catherine Catholic Church 203 E. Brown St., Luverne St. Catherine Ph. 507-283-8502; www.stscl.org Father Joshua Miller, Pastor Sunday mass: 8:30 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday daily mass: 5:15 p.m. All Sunday masses will be live streamed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pg/stccluverne/videos/. Visit www.stscl.org for more information. Luverne Christian Reformed Church 605 N. Estey…
- By Rev. Dr. Steven Voris, First Presbyterian Church, LuverneJanuary 14, 2026In their 2023 book, The Great Dechurching, Jim Davis and Michael Graham point out that 40 million adults used to go to church in the United States but no longer do. They list a plethora of reasons people used for quitting church, including bad experiences with church leadership, mingling of faith and politics, loss of faith, simply not looking for a new church after a move, intolerance of…
- January 14, 2026t. Catherine Catholic Church 203 E. Brown St., Luverne St. Catherine Ph. 507-283-8502; www.stscl.org Father Joshua Miller, Pastor Sunday mass: 8:30 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday daily mass: 5:15 p.m. All Sunday masses will be live streamed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pg/stccluverne/videos/. Visit www.stscl.org for more information. Luverne Christian Reformed Church 605 N. Estey…
- By Pastor Jeremy Jacob, Blue Mounds Baptist Church, LuverneJanuary 07, 2026Well, if you are reading this today, I assume that you successfully survived another Christmas. Christmas is a wonderful time of year, but it can also be a hectic one. Unfortunately, the weariness of the Christmas season often stems from the spiritual meaning of Christ's birth being drowned out by the noise of commercialism. The gift God gave us in Jesus has been replaced by the special gift you…
- January 07, 2026St. Catherine Catholic Church 203 E. Brown St., Luverne St. Catherine Ph. 507-283-8502; www.stscl.org Father Joshua Miller, Pastor Sunday mass: 8:30 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday daily mass: 5:15 p.m. All Sunday masses will be live streamed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pg/stccluverne/videos/. Visit www.stscl.org for more information. Luverne Christian Reformed Church 605 N. Estey…
- By Rev. Dr. Phil Booe, St. John Lutheran Church, LuverneDecember 30, 2025Every January arrives with a sense of ceremony. The calendar flips, the ball drops and the confetti falls. And with this passing ritual, we sometimes tell ourselves, often with great sincerity, that this time things will be different! This new year will be a new me! Well, if that is you, you are not alone. The ancient Romans gave January its name from Janus, their god with two faces, who looked…
- December 23, 2025St. Catherine Catholic Church 203 E. Brown St., Luverne St. Catherine Ph. 507-283-8502; www.stscl.org Father Joshua Miller, Pastor Christmas Eve mass: 10 p.m. Christmas mass: 9 a.m. Saturday mass: 5 p.m. Sunday mass: 8:30 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday daily mass: 5:15 p.m. All Sunday masses will be live streamed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pg/stccluverne/videos/. Visit www.stscl.org…
- December 23, 2025As Christmas arrives once again, it comes into a world that longs for hope and truth. For Christians everywhere, Christmas is not simply a celebration of tradition, nostalgia or seasonal cheer. It is the bold proclamation that God chooses to come close; fully present in human vulnerability, as a baby, wrapped not in power but in love. The Christmas story, told in the Gospel of Luke, begins far…
- By Pastor Praveen Muthusamy, Hills United Reformed ChurchDecember 17, 2025Title: Run the Race of Faith Part-4 This is the fourth time we are considering Hebrews 12:1-2 and in my last column we focused on Hebrews 12:1b, “Let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely.” We noted that weight is different from sin. We defined weight more as hindrance and obstacles that prevent us from running the race well. While there are plenty of things to talk…
- December 17, 2025St. Catherine Catholic Church 203 E. Brown St., Luverne St. Catherine Ph. 507-283-8502; www.stscl.org Father Joshua Miller, Pastor Sunday mass: 8:30 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday daily mass: 5:15 p.m. All Sunday masses will be live streamed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pg/stccluverne/videos/. Visit www.stscl.org for more information. Luverne Christian Reformed Church 605 N. Estey…
- By Rev. Dr. Steven Voris, First Presbyterian Church, LuverneDecember 09, 2025Like most Christian pastors, I was frustrated with the commercialization of Christmas and the lack of spiritual meaning expressed during the holiday, UNTIL I served as a U.S. Navy Chaplain and understood, for the first time, that there is more than one correct way to celebrate Christmas. After all, President Ulysses S. Grant made Christmas a Federal Holiday in 1870, the only U.S. Federal Holiday…
- December 09, 2025St. Catherine Catholic Church 203 E. Brown St., Luverne St. Catherine Ph. 507-283-8502; www.stscl.org Father Joshua Miller, Pastor Sunday mass: 8:30 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday daily mass: 5:15 p.m. All Sunday masses will be live streamed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pg/stccluverne/videos/. Visit www.stscl.org for more information. Luverne Christian Reformed Church 605 N.…
- December 03, 2025St. Catherine Catholic Church 203 E. Brown St., Luverne St. Catherine Ph. 507-283-8502; www.stscl.org Father Joshua Miller, Pastor Sunday mass: 8:30 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday daily mass: 5:15 p.m. All Sunday masses will be live streamed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pg/stccluverne/videos/. Visit www.stscl.org for more information. Luverne Christian Reformed Church 605 N. Estey…
- By Pastor Mark Eliason, First Lutheran Church and Palisade Lutheran ChurchDecember 03, 2025At the front of almost every Lutheran church, for the four Sundays before Christmas you will see a wreath with five candles on it. Four around the outside of the wreath and a larger one in the middle of the wreath. The four candles represent the themes of Advent which are hope, peace, joy and love, and one candle is lit each Sunday representing the theme of the day. But why do we do this, and…
- By Pastor Walt Moser, First Baptist Church, LuverneNovember 25, 2025A key theme running through the tapestry of scripture is that of a watchful God, intimately concerned with human affairs. From the Psalms to the Prophets, and into the New Testament, the Bible repeatedly assures believers that the Lord sees, knows, and considers every aspect of their lives, both public and private. Psalm 33:13-15 opens this perspective, describing the Lord looking down from…
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