Drammen Lutheran Church

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 hope you find your time spent here a blessing. Our church is a warm and friendly church, and 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.

 

July 12, 2026  

Dear friends in Christ grace and peace to you. The message for this week comes from Isaiah 55.

I may have shared this story before, but as I have entered another decade my mind has so many memories it’s getting harder to reach back and pull them out. In the early years of my career at UW-Eau Claire I helped supervise a summer maintenance crew made up of college students. Our job was to get the dorm rooms and laundry equipment ready for the incoming students for the fall semester. We had three different crews. A maintenance crew who readied the dorm rooms. A phone crew (at that time each room still had a telephone) who repaired the phones. And a washer dryer crew who was responsible for making sure all the washers and dryers in the laundry rooms were repaired and ready to go for fall. My story has to do with an event that happened two years ago. A former student I had supervised somehow found me on our church’s website and contacted me. He and two other former students who had remained in contact wanted to get together with me to reminisce about old times at the college. I agreed to meet with them and we had a wonderful visit. But what sticks with me is what one of them said to me. He said “Mike, you have had more of an influence on us than you will ever know.” Which brings me to one of the points our text for this week makes in verse 11: so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

Whether we realize it or not we are all instruments of God. Everything we do, everything we say is seen and heard by God and by other people. As a young boy I idolized my father, I wanted to be like him and so I did some of the things he did and I said some of the things he said and probably still do. Others are watching and listening to us to see and hear what we say and do. My experience in my preaching has been that oftentimes what I say is heard in a different way than I intended. I have come to realize that I am just the messenger and that God determines where that message lands. As we live our lives and as we travel on our individual journeys of faith we should always remain aware that we are disciples of Jesus, we are sharing the good news of the gospel by sharing our faith stories. We ask for God’s guidance as we share these stories and let God plant and nourish the seeds.

May the peace of God be with all of you as you live out your life planting seeds of faith and hope.
Michael Isaacson