by Aaron Syvertsen | Mar 14, 2017 | Blog, Holiness
What happens when you find yourself in a situation where what you know conflicts with what you do? In the past five years, I’ve grown to love biographies of men and women from every time period and way of life, from presidents to civil rights leaders, to athletes,...
by Andy Steen | Mar 7, 2017 | Blog, History, The Church
There’s no lack of new ideas when it comes to church growth. Jesus had a couple ideas himself, and we refer to them today as the sacraments. A sacrament may sound to you like something from the middle ages, but the word simply means a visible sign of a spiritual...
by Mary Capalbo | Feb 28, 2017 | Blog, Surrender
What makes a story great? Is it the twists and turns that the author takes his characters on? Is it the growth the characters experience through the chapters or the solving of a mystery? Is it the evolving of a love story or the surprise ending? One thing is for sure,...
by Aaron Syvertsen | Feb 21, 2017 | Blog, Preaching
There’s a sobering reality that pastors come to realize at some point early on in ministry and it’s this: after a few hours of preaching your heart out on Sunday morning, the majority of people who heard it will struggle to remember your outline, and after a few days,...
by Andy Steen | Feb 14, 2017 | Blog, Church History
How did this thing called “Church” get started in the first place? Why did Jesus’ original followers start gathering together and worshipping this man, and why do Christians still do this two thousand years later? Do Christians meet together just because...
by Mary Capalbo | Feb 7, 2017 | Blog, Surrender, Trust
Do you ever live through a week that leaves you feeling like you are barely holding on? I felt like by Friday I was limping along, just trying to make it to the weekend. As that week came to a close, I began processing what had just happened to bring me to that point...
