mosaic church

 I am often asked the question, or some variation of the question, “How are things going at Mosaic?”. I usually find this question hard to answer. If I reply simply, “good”, ten people may have ten different ideas of what exactly “good” means. more »

So we’re at a party one Saturday evening, and Kasey says that he’s going to preach about I Peter Chapter 3 the next day and talk about baptism.  He’s asking what we think about setting up a temporary baptistery.    I was instantly excited about the idea, being a fan of baptism and all, but all I could think about were the logistics.  What would we use?  My kids’ baby pool was too small, so was the largest Rubbermaid tote we could find.  Kasey found a cow trough at Tractor Supply—that was the ticket!  But what about the weight of 300 gallons of water—could our building support over a ton in one spot?  What about clothes and towels and the time change—would anyone want to be baptized? more »

“If I say, ‘Surely the darkness will hide me and the light will become night around me,’ even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.”                     ~Psalm 139:11-12

Scott spoke Sunday about trusting in the Lord’s sovereignty and goodness—something with which I struggle on a daily basis. Anyone who knows me well knows that I am full of anxiety. I worry about tornadoes and fires and car accidents…and tornadoes. I worry about something happening to my husband, something happening to me, and my husband being left alone. And now, with a 5-week old baby in my life my fears have increased exponentially.  Most days I feel a prisoner of fear and I am reminded of the day Scott spoke about hope and quoting his friend he said, “The categories of optimism and pessimism don’t exist for me. I am a prisoner of hope. I am going to die full of hope.” And I LONG for my chains of captivity to be those of hope instead of fear. more »

As a kid growing up in the church, I heard about baptism every Sunday- but there was only one truly cool place to be baptized: Christian summer camp.  For those who haven’t experienced Christian summer camp, it’s a week every summer where hundreds if not thousands of pre-pubescent middle schoolers gather in one location for food fights, “the blob”, skits, summer love, singing “Friends are Friends forever”, campfires, cry-fests, and confessionals.  In my experience, this was also the place where on the last day of camp everyone was convicted of their adolescent trespasses, and decided to get baptized. more »

I have to admit that I’m always up for a good analogy…or even a bad one.  Throw in a little imagery, and I’m hooked.  So, needlessness to say, I was excited as Kasey read the passage in First Peter 2, which describes believers as “a chosen people… who have been called out of darkness into His wonderful light.” Kasey went on to describe how darkness is the image of sin, but light is that which overtakes sin (the darkness).  After all, when you walk into a dark room, it doesn’t take a spotlight to overcome the darkness; simply light a match and the darkness will be gone.  more »

Sometimes it is easy for us to view the Bible as a boring old book.  It
is ancient and uninteresting.  But then sometimes we are pleasantly
surprised when we are reminded how complex, exciting, and truly timeless
Scripture is.  This Sunday we found ourselves jumping around tracing the
roots of 1 Peter’s reference to Jesus as the Living Stone. more »

So in case you missed it, Kasey taught “in the half-round” on Sunday. With large strips of paper taped to some of the mirrors in the main gathering room, he cited a cornucopia of biblical reference referring to Jesus as a rock or a stone or the living Stone. I believe he started with 1 Peter 2:4 and then jumped all over the place. If only he had had a lot of yarn to connect all the references to each other, it would have been a web to impress Dr. Suresh (yes a “Heroes” reference). more »

So, as I said a few weeks ago, this is becoming more and more of a sporadic thing for me. I feel bad about that, I really do…just not bad enough to write more often. So, we’re going to try something new. Instead of just hearing about what’s important to me (like twice a year), we’ve asked for some of our friends we are in community with to start writing some blogs.

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Let’s face it: the economy stinks.  The Dow is dropping, factories are closing right and left, and I got yet another dreary bar graph from my IRA fund showing how my bottom line is bottoming out.  And yet, I still sit in a (somewhat) warm house with a lovely daughter and a little one on the way.  In short, I’m still happy.  How is that possible?   more »