Yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.       Isaiah 64:8 My name is Steve Bakke. I am the pastor at Nordland Lutheran Church in Paynesville, Minnesota, and host of The Potter’s Way Video Bible Studies. I want to welcome you to the Potter’s Clay Ministries web site. While you are here, I invite you to listen to our growing archive of sermons (The Potter's Way Video Bible Studies coming soon). It is a privilege to serve Jesus as a minister of the Good News and I pray that the information and resources you find here will bless you on your journey of faith. At Potter's Clay Ministries, we believe that God has lovingly created every person on earth. If we are willing to be shaped and molded by Him, we will live our lives not as finished products, but rather as works in progress. We believe that God loves each one of us in spite of the wrong decisions we make and the sin that fouls our relationship with God and other people. God wants us to know that He has a better way for us than what we would choose for ourselves. That is the reason that He sent us Jesus. If, like soft clay, we are willing to be continually molded by our Creator, we will live lives of meaning and significance and will become all that God created us to be.

Pastor Steve Bakke