Mount Carmel Ministries

We gathered for worship on Father's Day. June 21, 2026. The texts were Psalm 91:1-10 and Matthew 10: 21-33. This was also our first day of our first family camp for 2026!

Join us for a special episode. We recorded the entire final Cantabile worship service at Mount Carmel this summer. Enjoy!

We gathered for worship May 31, 2026 on Trinity Sunday. Genesis 1:1—2:4a Psalm 8 Acts 2: 22-36 Matthew 28:16-20

We gathered for worship at Mount Carmel May 24th of 2026. The texts were Psalm 25:1-15, Acts 2:1-21, and John 7:37-39.

Listen to David Blackstad preach on freedom from our addiction to control. This sermon was preached on August 3rd, 2025.

The book of Revelation is both one of the most read and most misunderstood books of the Bible.  Attempts to “decode” or interpret the Apocalypse have often done more harm than good for the church.  Pastor Nathan Hoff and Pastor Dave Wollan will present a different approach to reading the Revelation, one more along the lines of a pastoral letter from Pastor John on Patmos to a beleaguered people. 

Emma Wollan preached on a Sunday morning at Family Camp in 2025. She preached on Genesis 11:1-9, Romans 5:1-11, and John 10: 1-21.

The following is a sermon David Blackstad preached at family camp in 2025.

God has given all of us an amazing ability to “dream,” and he encourages us to do just that! Indeed the Bible includes some great examples of godly “dreamers”. We’ll be looking at some of those in detail, as well as some solid biblical principles for understanding, developing, and fruitfully using the God-given gift of our imaginations.  With some frequency the Lord has called Paul and Pris Gossma...

Pastor Culynn joined us as our guest preacher for family camp in 2025. This was a sermon he preached on John 10 for our Sunday worship service.

Pastor Culynn Curtis preached on Hebrews Chapter 11 and 12 following our summer staff drama at our weekend family camp.

Dr. Thorson has published many articles on C.S. Lewis as well as a book called  Joy and Poetic Imagination: Understanding C.S. Lewis’s “Great War” with Owen Barfield and its significance for Lewis’s Conversion and Writings.  This weekend we will dive into C.S. Lewis’s conversion. What the steps were that led to his conversion to Christ and what his Christian view of the world and human beings was...

Katie Koch joined us as a guest preacher this summer. She preached on John Chapter 10.

This week Magnus Persson will examine his journey from popular preacher where church was a party, to the Lutheran faith and pastor in the Church of Sweden where he relishes the liturgy nourished by its historic roots. Persson relies heavily on Luther’s book  On the Councils and the Church  to answer this question and explain his journey.  Magnus is a husband, father, and grandfather. He is an orda...

Paul Koch joined us as a guest preacher for the family camp in 2025. This sermon is on Hebrews chapter 11, immediately following our summer staff drama.

Paul Koch joined us as a guest preacher for family camp in 2025. This sermon is preached on Luke 10: 38-42.

Paul Koch joined us as a guest preacher during family camp in 2025. He preached on Luke chapter 10.

Paul Cross joined us as a guest preacher for family camp in 2025. This is part four of his sermon series.

Paul Cross joined us as a guest preacher at Family Camp in 2025. This is part 3 of his sermon series on John 10.

Paul Cross joined us as a guest preacher for family camp in 2025. This is part two of his sermon series.

Paul Cross joined us as our guest preacher for family camp in 2025. He preached on John chapter 10.

Walter Sundberg is a professor emeritus of church history and a dynamic and engaging speaker. We cannot live without money in our society. We cannot live in our society without politics. Money and politics are fundamental realities of our life. It has always been so. The Bible and the Christian tradition speak about money and politics and offer guidance as to their use. We will examine this guidan...

Johan Hinderlie was back at Mount Carmel as a guest preacher this summer! Here is his sermon on Colossians and attachment to Jesus!

Ken Sundet Jones, Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa, loves teaching undergrads. He was born in Heidelberg, which must be why he likes Luther so much. He was shaped by the Sturgis motorcycle rally in his hometown and by summers at his grandparents’ cattle ranch. His doctoral dissertation covered 16th-century German evangelical funeral preaching. And h...

Paul Cross is recently retired from serving as the lead pastor of Atonement Lutheran in Fargo, ND. Paul specializes in Inductive Bible Study, the same method of Bible study practiced by Mount Carmel’s founders at the Lutheran Bible Institute. Join us for a week of wonderfully applied Biblical teaching including Paul Cross’ token “Dad Jokes of the Day”.