Join us Friday and Saturday, July 29-30 at City Square Park in downtown Chaska for River City Days. Every year we have a booth where we hand out FREE balloon animals and connect with the community. Last year we went through 1,300 balloons and connected with some great people. It is a lot of fun
A few weeks ago at Crown College I had the opportunity to meet Malcolm Mcloughlin. He is an Irish author who was at Crown to speak for their Missions Fest. He shared about running ultra-marathons of 40, 50 and even 100 mile races and compared that to the endurance of a lifelong journey with Christ.
In Colossians 3:1-17 Paul is talking about putting off our old lives and putting on our new life in Christ. He challenges us as followers of Christ to focus our lives on Christ rather than on the things of this world. That doesn’t mean that we don’t live in this world or we don’t partake
Did you know that there are about 59 one another statements in the New Testament that specifically deal with how we are to be in relationship with each other? Some of the verses overlap so that there are more than one verse about the same instruction. 15 of the 59 verses specifically talk about how
When we partake in communion at The River, I typically quote these words from I Corinthians 11: 23 For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said,
Have you ever had someone call you on the phone and the person on the other end of the line just starts talking or says something like, “hey it’s me,” and yet you have no idea who it is? It’s like the person thought they were familiar enough that you would recognize them and know
Life is busy isn’t it? We all have so many different responsibilities and different things that are vying for our attention. We find ourselves often running from one thing to the next. But while life is busy, ultimately we really all have time for things that we consider to be important. For instance, if we
My wife Julie was diagnosed with pneumonia last Friday. The doctor told her that she had to go home and go to bed. She was told to treat it as if she was in the hospital even though she was at home. I know that many people have been praying for her and thankfully she has begun
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?”
You know one of the problems with writing a blog is that you wonder if anyone actually is reading it. I mean, what if I spend all this time sharing my thoughts and really nobody is interested? I guess it is kind of that, “if a tree falls in the forest…” kind of question. Blogging