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For My Friends

Called to Listen, Commissioned to Speak

17 Jul 202317 Jul 2023
By Justin Rossow “What am I supposed to say?” For people who follow Jesus, that question can come up in all kinds of different circumstances. That question can turn a…
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Secure Humility

18 Apr 202318 Apr 2023
By Sam Fink Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he…
Faith Experiment…

#Lenten Walk, Week 5

30 Mar 202311 Apr 2023
By Alli Bauck “Hi, friends!” A familiar voice enthusiastically welcomes me. It belongs to Annie F. Downs, a woman I have never met; but she and I have been on…
Faith Experiment…

#Lenten Walk, Week 4

22 Mar 202322 Mar 2023
By Alli Bauck If anyone is keeping track, we are over halfway through the Lenten season. (Resurrection Sunday is getting closer!!!) For me, personally, the last eleven days have been…
Faith Experiment…

#Lenten Walk, Week … What?

16 Mar 202317 Apr 2023
By Alli Bauck This week felt like one step forward, two steps back. As Spring makes its anticipated arrival to the Kansas City area, the forecast last week was a…
Faith Experiment…

#Lenten Walk, Week 2

8 Mar 2023
By Alli Bauck Wow. Podcasts are e-v-e-r-y-where! I started out my #Lentenwalk with a varied list of podcasts (see my first Lenten Walk blog); however, my Spotify library has doubled…
Discipling Leaders…

Let Zacchaeus Have His Day

15 Nov 202219 Sep 2023
By Justin Rossow You probably know the story. Or at least the song: “Zacchaeus was a wee little man, and a wee little man was he.” You likely know the…

Reflections on God, Faith, and Promises

10 Nov 2022
By Jamie Wiechman Exactly five years and three months ago, I believed God for something impossible. It wasn’t a promise directly out of Scripture (though it was surrounded by Scripture…
For My Friends

Today is Where the Gift is.

19 Oct 2022
By Jamie Wiechman A few years ago, it was brought to my attention that I had a lot of discontentment. I’ll be honest: that feedback stung a bit. I was in…
Discipleship Tools…

Noticing Your Emotions, with Jesus

30 Sep 2022
By Justin Rossow Emotions are simply part of who we are as human beings; which means our emotions are "beautifully and wonderfully made," and part of a fallen creation, both…
For My Friends

Peace in the Process

14 Jul 20222 Nov 2022
By Kim Longden A few days ago, I was sitting in the optometrist’s office with nine-year-old Jonah listening to the hushed tones of the eye exam in progress: “What is…
Exegetical Study…

Money, in a Fish

7 Jun 20222 Nov 2022
By Kim Longden When my oldest son was little, we read from the Beginner’s Bible each night at bedtime. One night we opened up to a story entitled “Money in…
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Be Mine

3 Feb 20222 Nov 2022
By Alli Bauck Fear not, for I have redeemed you;I have called you by name, you are Mine. Isaiah 43:1b (ESV) For the past seven months I’ve been carrying around…
For My Friends

*Click*

20 Jan 20222 Nov 2022
By Katie Helmreich We’re near the finish line! A 1000 piece puzzle, with 360 Lego Minifigure Faces, almost done! Almost.  With this particular puzzle, few of our standard puzzle-solving tricks…
Exegetical Study

The Proof is in the Pudding

3 Dec 202110 Dec 2021
By Justin Rossow 3 I thank my God every time I remember you. 4 In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy 5 because of your partnership in the gospel from the…
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Living with Loose Ends

11 Oct 20212 Nov 2022
By Kristeen Bruun My son called recently to find out how and what I was doing. “I am clearing out,” I told him, and I also assured him that he…

No Regrets!

1 Aug 202131 Aug 2021
By Kristeen Bruun These days, regrets swarm around my head like the swarms of no-see-ums used to do when my siblings and cousins and I played in the northern Wisconsin…

Watching the Dock Emerge

2 Jul 2021
By Kristeen Bruun I was barely home from my son’s wedding long enough to do my laundry when I traveled forth again for an eight-day silent retreat. The first question…

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