First Prebyterian Church

Daily resolutions are better than New Year's resolutions
By Rev. Dr. Steven Voris, First Presbyterian Church, Luverne
January 08, 2025
We celebrated the passing of another year on the Gregorian calendar last week, which has been the standard measure for recording the passage of time since 1582. The Gregorian calendar was an improvement over the Julian calendar which went into effect in the Roman Empire on January 1, 45 BCE. If the goal of a calendar is to keep the solstice and equinox dates the same, so that a year is…
Intercessory prayer
By Rev. Dr. Steven Voris, First Presbyterian Church, Luverne
March 06, 2024
Of the many different types of verbal and nonverbal prayer, intercessory prayer is the type that is pure love. There isn’t anything wrong with praying for oneself or praying for a close family member or friend. Jesus prayed for himself in John 17:5. However, when we pray for someone we don’t know, or for a troubling situation far away that doesn’t impact our daily lives, then that intercessory…