God’s plans for people will never expire By Pastor Ryan Stockstrom Harvest Fellowship Church Last week I challenged us to consider, “What was God’s Motivation?” Why did He send Jesus into this broken and harsh world? What is it about Him? What’s in His heart that allowed Him to make the decision to send His Son to… Read More

From my desk Bob Williams Editor December is always a month of reflection on the prior year and a 31-day countdown to the future. Last January 1, I was happily unemployed, taking a break from journalism and thinking about a change of career for my future. It was going to take a few minor miracles to get… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda As memories go, some of my best ones revolve around electricity. One thing about electricity always fascinated me–it was available in so many different forms. Back in 1949, when I was five years old and our telephone was one of the first–not the first, which was before I was born–of the better… Read More

By Pastor Ryan Stockstrom Harvest Fellowship Church “Motivated,” according to the online Oxford languages dictionary means “to provide (someone) with a motive for doing something.” An example it offers is “he was primarily motivated by the desire for profit.” Have you ever wondered about God’s motivation?   As I think about Christmas coming soon, and the celebration of Immanuel,… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda As some of you know, this will be the first winter that keeps me here in Minnesota for quite some time. The reason of course is  Hurricane Ian, which caused six feet plus of water over several counties around Ft. Myers, Florida, including my place. So the first little bit below zero… Read More

The topic of child care seems to be a part of everyone’s conversations lately. In recent years, the lack of access to care has risen to be one of the biggest detriments to the United States economy. This is not a surprise within the early childhood world, as advocates have predicted a decreased supply of… Read More

By Pastor Ryan  Stockstrom Harvest Fellowship Church Lee Strobel, a Christian apologist wrote, “To continue in atheism, I’d need to believe nothing produces everything, non-life produces life, randomness produces fine-tuning, chaos produces information, unconsciousness produces consciousness, and non-reason produces reason. I just didn’t have that much faith.”   There’s a lot to unpack there but to summarize, it… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda One of my science magazines has a marvelous article on the new James Webb Space Telescope, which was put into deep space recently. Suddenly, light from galaxies that formed very close to the theoretical beginnings of the universe are being seen. Theoretical? Sure, the Big Bang theory is just that, a theory…. Read More

Ask A Trooper Sgt. Jesse Grabow Question:  I heard on TV the State Patrol responded to over 1,300 crashes and 5 fatal crashes the last several days.  Do you have any tips for winter driving? Answer: Snow and ice can make driving a bit more challenging, even if you grew up here. It not only involves knowing what… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda One winter, back a few years, I purchased a 1976 International Harvester Scout, which I observed languishing in a roadside lot each day as I drove by on my way to work. It looked lonely, neglected, and of course, since my farming family has had a long acquaintance with red Farmall… Read More