First Lutheran Church in Moline, Illinois

06/03/2026

05/30/2026

Reminder that we will worship with the 7 other Moline/Rock Island congregations tomorrow, 5/31. 10:00 @ Centennial Hall, Augustana College. There is no service at FLC.

05/30/2026

05/27/2026

Pope Leo XIV: "Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective. From this perspective, persons end up being reduced to a means of achieving results, a resource to be used and exploited, and are no longer recognized as a proper end in themselves who should never be instrumentalized. The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce. There are rights that apply to everyone simply by virtue of being human, and no human power can legitimately deny or arbitrarily limit them."

05/22/2026

From When God is Silent (Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching)

05/22/2026

I trusted God to be God even if I could not say who God was for sure. I trusted God to sustain the world, although I could not say for sure how that happened. I trusted God to hold me and those I loved, in life and in death, without giving me one shred of conclusive evidence that it was so.

05/07/2026

Do you know about Lutheran deconesses?

“You sisters are the Bible the patients read.” -Sister Elizabeth Fedde

A Norwegian Lutheran deaconess, Elizabeth Fedde founded one of the first deaconess ministries in the United States, serving immigrants and the sick in Brooklyn in the late 1800s.

In every act of care, every moment of presence, the Gospel is made visible.

This is the heart of diaconal ministry, living the Word in ways people can see and feel.

Image: Norwegian Deaconess Chicago - deaconess nurse with a patient 1939

05/04/2026

Our own Margaret Swenson (aged 94) gave a fun program for us today.

12/22/2025

Christmas Eve
8:30 Concert
9:00 Worship