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Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Happy National Voter Registration Day!Organizations across the country are registering voters in their communities on September 16, 2025... except in North Dakota.
Along the way

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Along the way

Christine Jensen
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
|Sometimes along the way, we are confronted with disappointments and setbacks. In the course of traveling through those antagonists of time and energy, we find peace and solitude in the quiet of life’s restorative tapestry.There were a few days last week I was feeling extremely low.
Christians standing in one accord are a silhouette of the Spirit-filled church. Photo by John Shafer

Christians standing in one accord are a silhouette of the Spirit-filled church. Photo by John Shafer

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Prism of prose

One Accord By Clint Van Camp
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
What does a Spirit-filled Church look like? We may conclude it is a church which retains the principles of the first century church. The early church in the Book of Acts was one of robust growth. It was a Spiritfi lled church. A.
From the pastor’s desk

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From the pastor’s desk

Pastor Leroy Aufenkamp
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
While debating the fate of Jesus’ apostles in Acts 5:34-39, “a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law” reminded his fellow Pharisees of two men who had attracted a large following of like-minded people – Theudas and Judas. Both men were slain, and the movements they led soon dissipated.
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I need

News Staff
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Inspired by Gwen Berge. AFLC Board of Publications and Parish Education, Ramsey MN Written by Andrea Johnston What is on your list of “needs?” Most of us are so blessed. We have food and shelter and creature comforts.But what do we really need?First and foremost, our greatest need is God Himself.
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letter to the editor

News Staff
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Happy National Voter Registration Day!Organizations across the country are registering voters in their communities on September 16, 2025... except in North Dakota.
My two cents | Thinking this one through By Mike Alan Steinfeldt

My two cents | Thinking this one through By Mike Alan Steinfeldt

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My two cents | Thinking this one through By Mike Alan Steinfeldt

News Staff
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
If you read my column last week you recall that a shop accident cost me the loss of a part of my left index finger.My accident happened on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend, August 30.
Albino alligators, Part 2 by Bob Simmons

Albino alligators, Part 2 by Bob Simmons

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Albino alligators, Part 2 by Bob Simmons

News Staff
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Before we continue with part two of my interview in the sewer with Mr. X, I must first acknowledge an email I received shortly after last week’s paper arrived in area mailboxes.
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North Dakota’s storyline by Bill Patrie

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Wednesday, September 10, 2025
If North Dakota’s future is being written as a novel, what is the storyline and who is writing it?Larry Woiwode, the author of “Beyond the Bedroom Walls” and one time Poet Laureate of North Dakota, said “North Dakota has lost its storyline.
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