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Remember Well the Future: Advent Reflection
Remember Well the Future Receiving Advent’s Covenant Promise by Don Johnson | December 4, 2019 Planning, leading, guiding, and preaching on Sundays is a high honor and privilege. But planning worship for the Advent and Christmas season is tricky business. [...]
The Disregarded Gift: Advent Reflection
The Disregarded Gift With all our focus on Christmas, does the manger still catch us unaware? by Leeann Younger | December 2, 2019 Tanya’s life is littered with loss. To the untrained eye the ravages of urban poverty, her battle [...]
The North Park Distinctive: An Interview with Mary Surridge
The North Park Distinctive An Interview with Mary Surridge by Erin Chan Ding | November 18, 2019 At her inauguration less than one year ago, Mary Surridge, the 10th president of North Park University, referenced the nine men who [...]
5 Minutes with David Stockamp: Training Pastors in DR Congo
David Stockamp arrived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 40 years ago as a missionary and minister in the Bible institute of the Covenant Church of Congo (CEUM). The CEUM operates in northwest DR Congo, an area approximately the […]
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Lift Jesus Up, Carefully, Please
Breaking away from the pack to do something different can produce obvious benefits, but there can also be unintended consequences. In the Hamilton showstopper “The Room Where It Happens,” the titular hero lectures his frenemy Aaron Burr, “When you got […]
Seeking Truth
The opening lines of the HBO miniseries Chernobyl, released earlier this summer, set the stage for its depiction of the USSR’s handling of the world’s most destructive nuclear accident: “What is the cost of lies? It’s not that we’ll mistake […]
Voices: Forgiveness Is a Gift. Don’t Turn It into a Weapon
Sometimes, in my mind’s eye, I like to conceive of what I call Biblical deleted scenes […]
An Oregonian Lament
Despite living in Portland, I do not consider myself a true Oregonian. This is partially because I understand our history, and I’ll likely never truly feel at home in a state intentionally founded to exclude black people. But also Oregon […]
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YouVersion Announces Most-Engaged Verse of 2019
The app surpassed previous totals in several categories […]
Five for Friday: ‘Elegant’ Bloodsuckers, Barbershop Church, A Better Form of Aid?
CHICAGO, IL (December 6, 2019) – Covenanters routinely share links to social media articles and videos that Covenant News Service believes may be of interest to others. Each Friday we post five of them. Following is a sample of those […]
Incarcerated Men Reflect on Grace in Week of Prayer Guide
All of the reflections for the 2020 Week of Prayer guide, “Reconciling Grace,” were written by men […]
Five for Friday: Robots that Love Us, a Cellist in a Tree, Black Green Churches
Covenanters routinely share links to social media articles and […]