Central Lutheran Church - Elk River
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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.
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Who Is In Control? with Pastor Ben Carruthers
Send us Fan MailBabylon doesn’t only invade with armies. It invades with stories, habits, and names. As we kick off a summer series in the book of Daniel, we dig into Daniel chapter 1 and the theme…
#140 - Two Questions for Life {Reflections Re-Release}
Send us Fan MailTwo questions can expose how much of your life is choice and how much is drift: “Who are you?” and “What are you doing here?” We celebrate a milestone episode by telling a story about…
#139 - You’re Somebody Now {Reflections}
Send us Fan Mail“One day I’m gonna be somebody.” That sentence sounds ambitious, but it can also be a quiet apology for taking up space. We kick off with an Instagram reel where Gary Vee stops a…
Life That is Full of Life with Pastor Ryan Braley
Send us Fan MailWhat if the most life-giving thing you could do this week is stop? Not “check out” or “treat yourself,” but actually cease, long enough to wake up to your own life again. Before…
#138 - Go First {Reflections}
Send us Fan MailMost of us don’t need more information, we need a simple move that breaks the gridlock of hesitation. Today we’re leaning on a two-word rule for life that hits with surprising force:…
To The Lord with Sonja Knutson
Send us Fan Mail“To the Lord” sounds like a toast, but it can also be a way of living. We take the final stretch of Colossians and bring it down to street level: how Jesus reshapes what we do with…
#137 - There Is Nothing New Under the Sun {Reflections}
Send us Fan MailA stand-up comedian delivers the punchline of the year: modern pastors trying to solve modern problems with an ancient book, like a husband leaving for an AI TikTok dancer while the…
Out with the Old, In with the New with Pastor Ryan Braley
Send us Fan MailYou can’t staple Jesus onto an already busy life and call it transformation. Colossians 3 forces a sharper question: if you’ve been raised with Christ, what has to die so the real you…
#136 - Faithful with Little {Reflections}
Send us Fan MailThe 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:…
Rules, Rules, Rules with Pastor Ryan Braley
Send us Fan MailIf 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…
#135 - Where Are You? {Reflections}
Send us Fan MailGod’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…
Beliefs Buffet with Pastor Ben Carruthers
Send us Fan MailFaith 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,…
#134 - Why Your Plan Isn’t Giving You Peace {Reflections}
Send us Fan MailYour 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…
#133 - What If Nostalgia Is a Map? {Reflections}
Send us Fan MailNostalgia can sneak up on you and suddenly you’re missing a version of life you can’t actually return to. After a weekend back in Colorado with old friends, I find myself asking why…
The God Who Sees with Rob Morris from LOVE146
Send us Fan MailSome messages don’t just inform you, they pull your head up and make you look at people differently. We sit down with Rob Morris, founder and CEO emeritus of Love146, to talk about…
#132 - Two Questions That Change Everything {Reflections}
Send us Fan MailTwo questions can stop you in your tracks, the way a guard’s shout can freeze a stranger at the wrong gate: Who are you? And what are you doing here? Ryan opens with an old story…
Underneath It All with Pastor Ryan Braley
Send us Fan MailUnderneath everything we argue about, fear, chase, and try to control sits a claim that is either liberating or offensive: Jesus Christ is the center of it all. We walk through…
How to (Clumsily) Practice Resurrection with Pastor Ryan Braley
Send us Fan MailEaster isn’t asking you to admire a nice message about springtime. We’re talking about a claim that is either breathtakingly true or totally disruptive: Jesus is raised bodily, seen…
How Is This Night Different? with Sonja Knutson
Send us Fan MailA strange greeting like “Happy Maundy Thursday” can sound like code, and we get it because church language can feel like trying to explain a sport nobody’s ever watched. So we slow…
#131 - The Most Uncomfortable Day in Christianity {Reflections}
Send us Fan MailWe’re wired to love winners, which makes Holy Week oddly uncomfortable. Easter Sunday is bright and obvious, but Good Friday is slow, humiliating, and hard to look at. That’s exactly…
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