Advent
We adjust our lives around time. Clothing and schedules are different in the fall than the summer. We set goals and remember milestones with dates and...
Letter to Mill City Church
Dear Mill City, Racism breaks my heart, and the heart of God. It is evil and real, today. This is an issue we have not adequately addressed or engag...
Re: Work
Work isn’t a paycheck, a job, or a title. It is so much bigger than that. Work is what God did to create the world and what He commissioned humans t...
Sabbatical Rest
As a way of embracing our value of practicing sustainable rhythms we provide a sabbatical for every employee after seven years of full-time employment...
Dealing with Patterns from the Past
If we are going to move forward and grow into mature followers of Jesus, we have to look back at the impact of our past on our present. Our family of ...
Lament
God is calling us out of hiding into a full and flourishing life; one where we travel freely and lightly. To get there, we must step out of the shadow...
Water Baptism
Water baptism has been practiced throughout the history of the church starting in the book of Acts (Acts 2:41; 8:12; 8:38; 10:47-48 to name a few)...
Seven Deadly Sins: Seeds
The seven deadly sins are pride, lust, gluttony, wrath, envy, greed, and sloth. We often conjure them up in our minds in their extreme forms and thus ...
The Holy Who? Gifts of the Spirit
This is not a comprehensive list of the gifts of the Spirit. The following gifts and definitions come from the following passages of Scripture. Th...
The Bible: Approach is Paramount
I recently read through The Jesus Storybook Bible with my four boys and loved it! Not only do I deem it required reading for parents with small chil...
What Is Community?
There are many words in our language that are very important but often because of their importance they get overused and actually begin to lose meanin...