Conversation Sundays
What does God promise? How are we called to respond?
Living Together in God’s Promises God makes promises to us – but what exactly does God promise? And how are we called to respond? This Lenten season, our church will…
Read MoreAn Introduction to Servant Leadership
Service over Success Servant leadership is a vocational commitment to the well-being of the neighbor. It is a straightforward idea. If you want to be a servant leader, seek to…
Read MoreVocation or Occupation Podcast Discussion
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Read MoreOccupation vs. Vocation?
Our culture is more focused than ever before on jobs and occupations. There’s a growing sense that our happiness, even our self-worth, depends on finding a purposeful, impactful, and fulfilling…
Read MoreConversation Sunday Resources: A Waiting Community
Watch the Sermon from Conversation Sunday Questions for Discussion Do you think waiting feels difficult? Why or why not? What are some of the ways that our surrounding culture tries…
Read MoreWhat Jim Carrey and The Grinch Taught Me About Advent
A Tale of Two Grinch Productions CBS broadcast the original “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” TV special in December 1966. It’s a heartfelt holiday special with a sentimental message about…
Read MoreChurch Community: Waiting vs. Doing
A church community is so radically different from everything in our culture, because as it turns out, churches are more about waiting than they are about doing.
In Advent, we remember the promises God speaks to us. We wait for those promises to be fulfilled. And as we wait, we welcome. We forgive. And we serve.
Radical Hospitality: Resources for Discussion
Let’s Talk About and Reflect on Hospitality Tell a story of a time you received a memorable welcome…. What made it so memorable The extensive or elaborateness of the welcome…
Read MoreRadical Hospitality: How is a gym like a church?
On our first Conversation Sunday, we looked at the question: “What is Radical Hospitality?” Ryan Panzer walks us through one way we can think about what radical hospitality is (and isn’t) by thinking about an experience at a local gym.
Read MoreWhy Radical Hospitality Matters in a Lutheran Church
In a culture that is so quick to judge between right and wrong, where the practice of hospitality is itself an attempt to get people to be more like us, radical hospitality is difficult work.
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