Lessons in parenting, prayer, and patience Kristi Ivanoff lives in Anchorage, Alaska, where she is editor of the ECCAK Sinew and serves on the preaching team for First Covenant Church Anchorage. She also enjoys her “acting job” as a patient […]
Features
Companion Book Briefs: Crazy Shepherd/Crazy Sheep, Beyond Belief, Graduation: ‘So What Just Happened?’
By Megan Herrold CHICAGO, IL (September 19, 2014) — Book Briefs is an online feature of the Covenant Companionthat highlights new releases by Covenant authors. These reviews will supplement those provided in the magazine and are available on both Covenant […]
This Missionary Life
An inside look at the painful challenges and joyful surprises of following God’s call An interview with regional coordinators Pia and Eugenio Restrepo Although the modern concept of missions has placed an increasing emphasis on the “profession” of being a […]
An Unlikely Journey to an Unexpected Place
How two young people – one from suburban Minnesota, the other from rural Colombia – left their comfort zones and together followed God’s call. Katie Isaza and her husband, Julio, are project missionaries in Medillín, Colombia. As a young person, […]
Scooped Up In the Arms of God
How, as a hen gathers her chicks, a church becomes the body of Christ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen […]
Let’s Talk About What God Is Doing
Despite grim pronouncements about the church’s future, the opportunities for Christian mission are greater than ever before. A conversation with Leith Anderson and Gary Walter. If you’ve ever wondered, ‘Where have all the Christian statespersons gone?’ tonight you’re going to […]
Some Brokenness Required
Church planting maxim #10: “You will be broken.” I had heard this maxim often in my work with the Department of Church Growth and Evangelism before I experienced it as a church planter. I had helped facilitate denominational trainings and […]
Gauging Our Emotional Correctness
Josh Danielson is director of mobilization and contemporary worship at Arvada (Colorado) Covenant Church. Now a reading from the book of James, chapter 3, verses 9-11; I will be reading from the New Social Media Version: “With our emails and […]
40 under 40
40 Under 40. Bold. Innovative. Faithful. And just getting started.
Book Briefs: The Bible’s No Joke, Culture a Deceiver, Scoundrels Are Fools
By Cathy Norman Peterson CHICAGO, IL (May 13, 2014) — Book Briefs is an online feature of the Covenant Companionthat highlights new releases by Covenant authors. These reviews will supplement those provided in the magazine and are available on both […]
Book Briefs: Engaging Ministry from the Inside Out
By Cathy Norman Peterson CHICAGO, IL (December 18, 2013) — Editors’ note: This month the Covenant Companion launches an online feature that highlights new releases by Covenant authors. These reviews will supplement those provided in the magazine and are available […]
When Love Comes to Town
The radical notion of the Word made flesh Steve Norman is pastor of Kensington Church in Troy, Michigan. We bought a new house this year. We really loved our last house, but since we moved there seven years ago our […]