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Zip Code Teaching Series
…your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.” — Colossians 3.3b–4 NIV Identity and destiny are intertwined in the journey of faith and our inclusion in the body of Christ. Identity is complex, layered, and hybrid. But how we understand our rich and multifaceted identities influences our trajectory in life, how we live. That’s why we’re calling this series “Zip Code” as a…
Trunk or Treat (Halloween)
Join us for a creative and fun afternoon! This pandemic-minded event offers plenty of fun for the whole family: great treats, giving away laundry supplies to our neighbors from the Moore’s laundry-themed trunk, Halloween crafts and games, and of course Trunk-or-Treating! Roots families and friends are invite to get together and park their cars in the church parking lot (755 Prior Ave. in St. Paul), open up the trunks of their cars and decorate them in your own Halloween style.…
It is Good (Teaching Series)
You could easily be forgiven if, from the messages promoted and policies advocated by American Christians, you don’t see demonstrated the biblical truths that God’s creation is good and that we are called to be protectors and stewards of the earth. For at least the last 50 to 60 years many American Christians have not only abdicated our responsibility to be caretakers of creation, but have actively contributed to practices and policies which pollute the earth, destroying the environment. There…
Holy Week 2021
Next week, starting on Palm Sunday, we enter Holy Week—the week leading up to Easter Sunday. During this week, we journey with Jesus through the final week of the Gospel story. On Palm Sunday we will commemorate Jesus’s ‘Triumphal Entry’ into Jerusalem, in which he flips the script of what it means to be King by riding a lowly donkey and weeping for his people. Pastor T. C. will share a message on the powerful way this episode of the…
Again & Again: A Lenten Refrain
In Lent, we’re reminded that, again and again, suffering and brokenness find us. We doubt again, we lament again, we mess up again. Again and again, the story of Jesus on the cross repeats—every time lives are taken unjustly, every time the powerful choose corruption and violence, every time individuals forget how to love. With exacerbation we exclaim, “Again?! How long, O God?” And yet, in the midst of the motion blur chaos of our lives, God offers a sacred…