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Drammen Lutheran Church Mission Statement:

Called by God's grace and equipped by the Holy Spirit, we nurture and challenge each other to grow in proclaiming the good news of Christ Jesus through celebrating worship, studying God's word, and showing hospitality by serving our neighbors both here and around the world.

Thank you for visiting our website!

Here you will find information concerning our church and its ministries. We want you to feel comfortable and at liberty to call on us for anything you need. Feel free to browse through the various areas of our website and learn about our fellowship.

If you are considering a new place of worship or a relocation to our area, we would love to have you be our guest.

When you visit our church, you will find:

  • A caring congregation that will gladly welcome you
  • Preaching/teaching that is centered on the Word of God
  • Activities for the whole family

We welcome you to worship with us each Sunday morning at 9:00am. Coffee and fellowship follow worship.

 

October 25, 2026  
Dear friends in Christ grace and peace to you. The message for this week comes from 
Jeremiah 31:31-34.

Clearly we can’t be trusted to hold up our end of the bargain with God. God gave us the beautiful Garden of Eden to care for. Life would be great. All we had to do was follow the rules. But we wanted to do it our own way, we were tempted and sinned. That ended our chance to live in peace and splendor. God tried to give us the world by freeing the Hebrew people from slavery to the Egyptians. He promised us a land of milk and honey. But we complained constantly about the hardship of the journey. God sent Moses up on the mountain to receive the Ten Commandments; rules to guide our lives by. But while Moses was gone we started worshiping idols. We did finally make it to the Promised Land but not until we had wandered in the wilderness for 40 years. The journey could have been much shorter but because we thought we could do it our way it took much longer. 

God for many centuries then sent a long series of prophets to bring God’s word to us. They gave instructions on how to live peaceably with one another. We were even warned what might happen if we disobeyed God’s word. But we didn’t listen. Some of us were removed from our homelands exiled to places that weren’t familiar to us. Eventually some of us repented, God saw that, had mercy on us, and returned us to our homelands. But that relationship with God wouldn’t last as we decided that we could manage by ourselves. 

Finally God sent his only Son as a sacrifice for us. Jesus, his Son, would pay the price for our sinfulness. Prior to Jesus, God had inscribed the law on stone but now through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit God’s law now lives within us. Stone has now become flesh and blood. God came among us in human form to make him real. 

Clearly we can’t be trusted with what God has given us. But the good news as we read in the final verse of this week’s text from Jeremiah is that God says: “For I will forgive their wickedness and remember their sins no more.”
I don’t know about you but I find God’s message to us to be very humbling. I clearly don’t deserve to be forgiven and yet God chooses to do just that. That is the message of love that God has written on our hearts and that lives within us.

May the peace of God be with all of you as you ponder the free gift of grace God gives us.
Michael Isaacson