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And very overdue update on “The Blessssing”. Recap: We realized we had become very distracted and inwardly focused. We challenged and encouraged each other to remember that God has blessed us to be a blessing to others. Each individual was challenged to seek out ways to bless others in their everyday lives. As a church, the challenge was presented for us to give away $5000 in 30 days. more »

Hey, everyone else is jumping on the batman train, so why can’t I? This unexpectedly long break from blogdom has led to a bit of a conundrum for me. Has it been so long that I should just jump back in and write a new blog like nothing is amiss, or do I write a blog to address the lack of a blog? I haven’t really decided yet. Oh wait…

As I promised, I wanted to fill everyone in on a challenge I gave at Mosaic a week ago or so. As part of my realization that I had been moping for far too long and become completely self-involved in a pity party; I realized that I needed to not only trust God, but turn my attention towards blessing others. All through Scripture God’s call is pretty clear, trust Him and bless others. So, I gave a challenge on two levels. more »

Okay, so it’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything, sorry about that. As many of you probably already know, it’s been one of those ‘beyond hectic’ times around here. At the end of March our worship leader announced his resignation, and April 13th was his last Sunday leading at Mosaic. I’ve realized over this past week that in the midst of all that craziness, we did something we never intended to do…we circled the wagons.

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Some of the headlines on cnn.com today are about the New York governor caught with a prostitute, Liberian troops forced to resort to cannibalism, the arrest of a man suspected of killing a Duke student, an archbishop kidnapped and killed, and a 16 year old girl that had been held captive as a sex slave.

We live in a broken and fragemented world, full of broken and fragmented people. We see it all around us, from the headlines to our own road rage and latest screaming match with our spouse. Of all the things that mankind is capable of, chief among them seems to be hurting each other. more »

The author Henry David Thoreau once said, “Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.” From what I know, he would not have considered himself a follower of Christ, which is exactly why his statement should cause all of us who claim to be followers of Christ to take pause. According to the biographers, H.D.T. disliked organized religion, and he ignored most aspects of Christianity.

What if those who claim belief in Jesus as their Lord and Savior had lived out their beliefs around H.D.T.? I obviously can’t say if it would have changed anything or not (or even if they did or not), but for someone who basically ingored matters of faith and belief in a higher power to claim that living your belief can turn the world around says quite a bit to me about how he percieved people of faith. more »

The need to feel like we belong is one of the strongest driving forces in our lives, whether we realize it or not. We do, or don’t do, countless random things to fit in. We wear certain clothes, cut our hair a certain way, and use all of the right words. We pick up the cool hobby or habit, or drop it if it’s not cool. It’s hard-wired in us to want to be accepted, to belong. Think about it, why do people join gangs, join clubs, stay in abusive relationships, or flock to myspace and facebook? It’s because we shudder at the thought of not being able to say, “we.” more »

The first section of our covenant is about beginning. We believe that faith is a journey and not a one-time arrival. So, while there is obviously the beginning of a faith journey in the sense that one must make the very first decision to take the very first steps towards a relationship with Christ, the journey doesn’t end there. Scripture is full of language that emphasizes this idea that faith is not something we mystically achieve and mark off of our list. more »

We are in a series on covenant right now, leading up to our ‘Covenant Sunday’ on March 16th. The short version is that we, as a church, are opting to move away from some of the ‘membership’ language that many of us have become familiar with in churches. We don’t think that membership is evil or anything like that, but we do feel like it’s lost some of it’s meaning in our society today. Afterall, you can be a member of the YMCA, the country club, and the book club, along with aproximately 1,573,593 other things. And almost without fail, being a member signifies that you pay your dues, and you therefore expect certain rights, privileges, or items in return. We don’t want to think of church as somewhere that we somehow pay our dues and therefore expect to recieve something, spiritual or otherwise, in return. more »

No, actually this isn’t a bad joke, though it does seem to have potential. So here’s the low-down. This past Saturday night, we had a group of volunteers come out to the lodge to help us do some early spring cleaning (yes, months early, but it needed it). Among the volunteers is my good friend Amy, currently about 36 weeks pregnant and looking forward to meeting her fourth child (currently known only by the alias ‘Peanut’). She gets on the elevator with her two daughters, pushes the button for the 3rd floor, and more »