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Central Lutheran Church - Elk River
Weekly sermons from our Central Lutheran Church preaching team plus quick reflections from Pastor Ryan Braley.
Real talk, ancient wisdom, and honest questions — all designed to help you learn, grow, and find encouragement when you need it most.
At Central, our mission is simple: FOLLOW Jesus together, be a community where you BELONG, and LOVE our neighbors across the street and around the world.
Think deeper. Live freer. Share an episode with a friend and visit us in person anytime — you’re always welcome here in Elk River, MN.
Central Lutheran Church - Elk River
Latest Episodes
I Kinda, Sorta See Clearly. Maybe. Kinda. with Sonja Knutson
Certainty can be a sneaky kind of blindness. We might have the right Bible answers, the right routines, and the right language about God, and still miss Jesus standing right in front of us. In Mark 8, that tension comes to the surface as we fol...
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Pig Problems with Pastor Ryan Braley
A storm goes silent at a command, then a man who has been living among tombs ends up clothed, calm, and fully himself again. That’s the kind of jolt we’re chasing as we walk through Mark’s most unsettling scene: Jesus crossing the Sea of Galile...
The Mustard Seed with Pastor Ryan Braley
When life feels dark, unstable, or flat-out unfair, “good news” can sound like wishful thinking. We sit with the Gospel of Mark’s original setting: a tiny, vulnerable Christian community living under the shadow of the Roman Empire, surrounded b...
#154 - How to Read Revelation {Reflections Re-Release}
Revelation has a reputation for beasts, fear, and wild predictions but that reputation misses what the book is actually doing. We take a fresh look at how to read Revelation as apocalyptic literature in the original sense of the word: an unveil...
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