The River Church

Check out the faith page of this week’s edition of the Chaska Herald. I wrote an article about worrying in tough economic times. Here’s a link to the online print edition (click on the picture to enlarge).

This one is just for fun. Here’s a website that will randomly generate a mock teen-written poem called ‘I am’. Refresh the page to get a new poem. Can you write anything better??

I wish I could get one of these! Take that, iphone!

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…

Thanks to Teresa for this bit of Minnesota humor from Jeff Foxworthy. On this 40 below day, take some warmth from the fact that we are special!

Nope…Not a Bible study on the story of the Good Samaritan. Rather a story about new census report about Chaska, the community where many of us live and minister…

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…

Hey River Community,

We would love to have you participate in the development of this website. If you have poetry or photography or ideas or thoughts that you’d like to share, we’d love to post them!

For no apparent reason, there is a website dedicated to microwaving things to see what will happen.

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, [...]