Grace Lutheran Church & Preschool

06/14/2026

MESSAGE today by:

“Released for Good”

Pastor Mark Williamson

06/12/2026

A Celebration of the Resurrection in thanksgiving for the life of Mary Ann Warner

06/07/2026

Second Sunday after Pentecost

MESSAGE
Vicar Jill Dybdahl

06/04/2026

06/03/2026

Families of Grace Lutheran! Please join us on Sunday, June 7, after worship in the Grace Center to collaborate on future faith formation programming for our children! Feel free to bring your kids, and let's come up with some great ideas together!

05/31/2026

Holy Trinity (First Sunday after Pentecost)

MESSAGE By:

Vicar Jill Dybdahl

05/24/2026

Message

"In the Last Days I Will Pour Out My Spirit upon All Flesh"

Pastor Mark Williamson

05/23/2026

Last week to register for Vacation Bible Camp and get the early bird rebate! We also have a mission endowment grant to cover the majority of the cost for our Summer@Horizons family campout June 30-June 2, as well as rebates to offer for Sugar Creek Bible Camp during any of their summer camp weeks. More information in our newsletter. Don't delay!

Families! Join us for Vacation Bible Camp at Bethel Horizons, Aug 3-6, 2026!
There's an early bird rebate offer to families in Dodgeville who sign up before May 31st!

To register for Vacation Bible Camp: https://cwngui.campwise.com/apps/onlinereg/pages/Index.html?AppID=BethelHF!b3h0f0&LocCde=CA0000&CustRes=Customer/BHorizons
GHR ID: Bethel26, then select VBC options

To register for VBC JR:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe4UqO-8bLvUpyMNwy_jHpoOkgiM2drqNqG-CWHGiErzHzjGg/viewform?usp=header

05/21/2026

This Sunday is the Festival of Pentecost, a special day celebrating the pouring out of the Holy Spirit sometimes called the "birthday of the church." We don't get too many "red" days in the church year, so make sure to seize the moment and wear red this Sunday. Badgers attire is completely acceptable!

For you, for all of us, for Pentecost Day.

THIS GRACE THAT SCORCHES US
A Blessing for Pentecost Day

Here’s one thing
you must understand
about this blessing:
it is not
for you alone.

It is stubborn
about this.
Do not even try
to lay hold of it
if you are by yourself,
thinking you can carry it
on your own.

To bear this blessing,
you must first take yourself
to a place where everyone
does not look like you
or think like you,
a place where they do not
believe precisely as you believe,
where their thoughts
and ideas and gestures
are not exact echoes
of your own.

Bring your sorrow.
Bring your grief.
Bring your fear.
Bring your weariness,
your pain,
your disgust at how broken
the world is,
how fractured,
how fragmented
by its fighting,
its wars,
its hungers,
its penchant for power,
its ceaseless repetition
of the history it refuses
to rise above.

I will not tell you
this blessing will fix all that.

But in the place
where you have gathered,
wait.
Watch.
Listen.
Lay aside your inability
to be surprised,
your resistance to what you
do not understand.

See then whether this blessing
turns to flame on your tongue,
sets you to speaking
what you cannot fathom

or opens your ear
to a language
beyond your imagining
that comes as a knowing
in your bones,
a clarity
in your heart
that tells you

this is the reason
we were made:
for this ache
that finally opens us,

for this struggle,
this grace
that scorches us
toward one another
and into
the blazing day.

—Jan Richardson
From Circle of Grace: A Book of Blessings for the Seasons

Image: “The Origin of Fire"
© Jan Richardson
janrichardsonimages.com

Inspired by Acts 2:1-21