The River Church

This week in my devotions I was reading in the book of Jeremiah.  Now if you have never read Jeremiah, it is not an easy book to read.  It is a bit of a downer.  Jeremiah was a prophet of the Lord and God gave him a lot of bad news to share with the [...]

Today in my devotions I came across Psalm 81:10, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you up out of Egypt.  Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.”  That is a beautiful and powerful verse.  When I think of it, I get the picture of a nest of baby birds with their [...]

So I am writing this blog while sitting at Dunn Bros. on Chestnut Street (41) in beautiful downtown Chaska, Minnesota.  It is a little more empty than normal for this time of day, and there is a sign on the front door that says that they are now closing at 4 p.m.  The reason given [...]

So yesterday my family and I went downtown and parked our van near Dunn Bros.  Then we walked over to the bridge heading out of town and joined the throng of people checking out the river.  The bridge was blocked off to traffic because 41 was flooded heading out of town, and there were hundreds [...]

Last night at our Leadership Team Meeting, we started talking about “Authentic Community.”  It was a good conversation.  I thought I would share a little bit about this topic in a post, because it is part of our vision statement and it is an imporant piece of who we are in ministry. 
So what is “Authentic Community?”  We [...]

Back in January, I wrote about how I am reading through the Bible this year in my devotions and for each chapter I read, I am choosing one verse to underline.  I thought it might be good for me to revisit that thought by sharing a few of the verses that I am choosing to underline.  [...]

Do you like to underline verses in your Bible or do you prefer your Bible to be clean and unmarked? Either way is fine, but let me give you a little nudge toward underlining by sharing with you a couple of reasons why I do it. Obviously Scripture is powerful all the time, [...]

In my Bible reading in Genesis, it’s been interesting watching the unfolding relationship between Abraham and God. In Genesis 17, the Lord appears to Abraham and Abraham’s response is to fall down on his face before God. In 17:17, God continues talking and Abraham falls facedown again. In 18:2, Abraham bows low to the ground before God. But finally, in 18:22-23, Abraham is standing before God and even approaches Him to ask God’s mercy upon the people of Sodom and Gomorrah…

In my youversion Bible reading for the day (yes, I started after the 1st of the year…I’ll be caught up in a couple weeks!) I came across this helpful reminder…

If you’ve never tried to read the whole Bible, maybe this is the year to give it a shot! There’s a great new website that can help you out by spacing out your reading over the course of the year. It lets you choose your favorite translation, blog about the passage you read, [...]