by Aaron Syvertsen | Apr 15, 2019 | Accountability, Blog, Easter Events, Idolatry
*This series of posts walks through the Holy Week timeline, day by day, as told in the Gospel of Mark. You can view Sunday’s post here. Mark 11:12-26 Snippet: And he was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called...
by Aaron Syvertsen | Apr 14, 2019 | Blog, Easter Events, Service
*This series of posts walks through the Holy Week timeline, day by day, as told in the Gospel of Mark. Holy Week: Palm Sunday Mark 1:1-11 Snippet: And many spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields. And those...
by Aaron Syvertsen | Mar 13, 2019 | Blog
“I don’t understand, how could this happen?” As a pastor, one of the most common sources of emotional pain I see in people’s lives is centered on a person close to them that drifted away from their faith. A son or daughter, brother or sister, husband or wife, friend...
by Aaron Syvertsen | Feb 20, 2019 | Anxiety, Blog, Christian Living, Contentment, Daily Life, Discipleship
This weekend marks the beginning of “The Open” in the Crossfit world, an annual competition where gyms across every continent do the same five workouts over five weeks and athletes log their scores online to see where they stack up amongst hundreds of thousands of...
by Aaron Syvertsen | Jan 30, 2019 | Blog
As I was watching the playoff football games last weekend with a baby (and sometimes two) in hand, I couldn’t switch channels during the breaks and therefore was forced to watch the commercials and the messages either explicitly or implicitly sent through them. The...
