{"id":2742,"date":"2022-01-14T11:49:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T17:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/?p=2742"},"modified":"2022-01-14T11:49:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T17:49:31","slug":"where-am-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2022\/01\/14\/where-am-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Where am I?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You may have noticed that the videos have changed for my sermons.\u00a0 That is because I took at new call at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centrallutheranaz.org\">Central Lutheran<\/a> in Arizona City and Casa Grande Arizona.\u00a0 My season at First Lutheran in South Sioux City has come to an end.\u00a0 A new season filled with hope and excitement has started.\u00a0 Kris and I have family and friends all within short driving distance too.<\/p>\n<p>Central Lutheran is a single congregation, with two worshiping sites.\u00a0 At 8:30 am on Sunday I lead worship in Arizona City.\u00a0 Then I head to Casa Grande to do the same at 10:00 am.\u00a0 There are challenges and rewards.\u00a0 Monday night at 6:30 pm, we have a worship in Casa Grande.<\/p>\n<p>If you get to the area, I invite you to check these out.<\/p>\n<p>The video presentations will be every evolving, along with our presence on the web.\u00a0 New website, new app, electronic giving and more are all in the works.\u00a0 Everything takes time and will be implemented, but not until it can be done in a good way.\u00a0 Check out their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/centrallutheranaz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook site<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CLC_AZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter site<\/a>.\u00a0 Consider following both.<\/p>\n<p>I will continue to post the sermons and from time to time, other what I hope to be, interesting and thought provoking posts.<\/p>\n<p>Remember the words of one of my dearest professors from Wartburg Seminary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If God wasn&#8217;t infinitely interesting, life would be infinitely boring.&#8221;\u00a0 Duane Priebe<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed that the videos have changed for my sermons.\u00a0 That is because I took at new call at Central Lutheran in Arizona City and Casa Grande Arizona.\u00a0 My season at First Lutheran in South Sioux City has come to an end.\u00a0 A new season filled with hope and excitement has started.\u00a0 Kris &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2022\/01\/14\/where-am-i\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[233],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-dougd","4":"post-2742","6":"format-standard","7":"category-update"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2m6h5-Ie","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1901,"url":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/08\/1901\/","url_meta":{"origin":2742,"position":0},"title":"TV Appearance First Lutheran on Siouxland New KMEG14 Fox44","author":"Douglas Dill","date":"September 8, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I had a fantastic opportunity to appear on KMEG14-Fox44 to speak about our new contemporary service. 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