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Story & Song: Listening to our History, Discerning our Future
A community of misfits has been gathering for fellowship and worship in St. Paul since 2014. It was planted by a launch team led by Touger Thao with financial support from the Evangelical Covenant Church. Pastor Touger resigned in January of 2017. In December of 2017, this misfit community called T. C. Moore to be their pastor and then called Osheta Moore to join the pastoral team in 2019. In the past five years there have been two meeting location…
New Teaching Series: ReFind
In a time and place where the religion of Christianity no longer enjoys unrivaled social privilege and power, a lot of people are questioning fundamental Christian beliefs—including Christians. Many are calling this “deconstruction” and it has caused some to fear that Christian faith is under attack. However, deconstruction doesn’t have to feel threatening, because not all deconstruction entails rejection. Some deconstruction is a precursor to rejuvenation. For example, Good Bones is a show in the fixer-upper genre. It follows a…
“Salvation by Allegiance Alone” (Ephesians 2.1-10)
We bring all of our selves to everything we interpret, including assumptions we have based on the influence of the cultures around us. When we come to this week’s text, Ephesians 2.1-10, many of us have been influenced by Modern, Western culture, which has conditioned us to understand the concept of “faith” as opposed to “works”. This is because of the view developed since the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth-century. But, we want to understand faith in Christ as it…