May 17, 2025 | blog, Life on Mission, peace, Prayer, Uncategorized
Most of us feel like true peace is so difficult to experience. On one hand – if we acknowledge the realities of the “peace stealers” we face – this isn’t shocking and it isn’t going to help to heap shame upon the mountain of anxiety so many of...
Jan 24, 2025 | Being The Church, blog, Community Impact, Life on Mission, Response
This week we had a specific invitation to love our neighbors from one of our partners Arrive Ministries. For many years we have supported the work they do as an organization that welcomes refugees and immigrants to the Twin Cities and other parts of Minnesota. Arrive...
Oct 19, 2024 | blog, Life on Mission, peace, Sermon on the Mount
Jesus says, “Blessed are the peacemakers” – But peacemaking is not for the faint of heart! Peace in Hebrew is “shalom” – not the absence of war, stress or anxiety (that would be escapism). Shalom is wholeness, completeness, fulfillment, inner rest, living...
Jul 20, 2024 | Being The Church, blog, Connecting With God, Life on Mission, Seminary for Everyone, Uncategorized
It’s hard to deny that there are wonderful things that the online world has offered us as humans, and it’s impossible to miss the realities that this is a tool that has caused and continues to cause harm. All of us have had different experiences with the emergence of...
Jun 29, 2024 | Being The Church, blog, Discipleship Group, Life on Mission, Missional Community
In Luke 10, Jesus sends out the 72 apprentices to look for “people of peace”. For us all in our relationships – who are the “people of peace” the people the Spirit is leading us to, who the Spirit is putting peace between us and them. Our call is to...
Jun 15, 2024 | blog, God at work, Life on Mission, Workplace
We are in a conversation we are calling: Apprenticing Jesus: In Real Life Discipleship for the lives we actually have. We are using the word apprentice interchangeably with disciple since it helps us understand what a disciple does. One who spends time with their...
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