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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
#136 - Faithful with Little {Reflections}
The fastest character test isn’t a big spotlight moment, it’s what we do with the small responsibilities nobody notices. We wrestle with a sharp line from Jesus in the Gospel of Luke: if you can be trusted with very little, you can be trusted w...
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Rules, Rules, Rules with Pastor Ryan Braley
If you’ve ever felt squeezed between “fit in with the culture” and “prove you’re serious with more rules,” Colossians 2 hits uncomfortably close to home. We walk through why the earliest Christians in a Greco-Roman town felt pressure to add Jes...
#135 - Where Are You? {Reflections}
God’s first move after failure isn’t a lecture. It’s a question: “Where are you?” Ryan takes us into Genesis 3, back to the Garden of Eden, where Adam and Eve reach for the forbidden fruit, feel their eyes open, and suddenly want to cover up. T...
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Beliefs Buffet with Pastor Ben Carruthers
Faith rarely gets attacked head-on. More often, it gets diluted. We keep Jesus on the plate, but we start piling on extras that feel practical, modern, and safe: success, comfort, status, control, and the need to be affirmed. That’s the “belief...
#134 - Why Your Plan Isn’t Giving You Peace {Reflections}
Your brain loves a plan, but that doesn’t mean your plan is love. We tell a story from a pilgrimage in Israel where our guide refused to share the itinerary, and it instantly revealed how quickly the ego reaches for control when certainty disap...
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