March 31st, 2011 | by Heather Thomas | published in Featured Posts, Pastoral Lenten Devotional
Read or remember the story of the woman at the well (John 4:5-26) She was a woman who’d had five husbands, with a lover at home. It was noon, not the typical time that women drew water from the well. But she needed water to cook, to clean, to drink. Some say she chose this [...]
March 24th, 2011 | by Julian | published in Featured Posts, Pastoral Lenten Devotional
The second week of Lent calls us to deny the power of evil over our lives. The temptation to sin (as Josh wrote about last week), to do what we know to be fundamentally wrong, to live a life oriented toward our own self-centeredness sustains a powerful hold over our lives. We see this very [...]
March 24th, 2011 | by Julian | published in Arts, Featured Posts
Kari Dunham’s work focuses on the human figure and the emotions and experiences that each person carries. Of late, she has also become interested in the interior spaces where people live out their daily lives. These drawings are made from charcoal on wood. They are deeply vulnerable and raw works for Kari as these past [...]
March 17th, 2011 | by Josh Butler | published in Pastoral Lenten Devotional
Use the following pastoral Lenten devotional as a supplement to the Imago Dei Psalms Of Ascent Lent booklet. Our prayer is that these devotionals would order our spirituality in such a way that we are enabled to sustain the repentance to which we have been called. Jesus is the new Adam. Jesus is tempted but [...]
March 17th, 2011 | by Rick McKinley | published in Featured Posts, Rick McKinley
I have gotten a lot of feedback from the sermon I preached on Audacious Faith out of Matthew 9:18-34. I wanted to share a few thoughts as I have reflected on the stories that have come in. Audacious faith is first of all difficult for secular people like us. When we are faced with seemingly [...]
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The biggest question in all of Scripture is captured in the book of John, chapter 11, verse 26. It ...