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Back to the Heart of Ministry

Apr 13, 2020By Guest Author1 Comment

Back to the Heart of Ministry After serving for two decades in denominational leadership, one pastor returns to his first love. by Richard Lucco | April 13, 2020 Pastoral ministry makes me come alive. The opportunity to journey with a [...]

Between the Cross and the Resurrection

Apr 8, 2020By Guest Author0 Comments

He Descended to the Dead An Evangelical Theology of Holy Saturday Matthew Y. Emerson IVP Academic, 272 pages Reviewed by Karen M. Hinz | April 8, 2020 Our culture is obsessed with the underworld. Last year, Hadestown won the Tony for [...]

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The Perfection Heresy

Apr 7, 2020By Guest Author0 Comments

The Perfection Heresy What an A.A. meeting can teach us about our expectations by Robert Rife | April 7, 2020 THE END October 2003. No amount of light could remove the darkness that had settled inside me. I could feel [...]

Empty Churches Celebrating the Empty Tomb

Apr 3, 2020By Guest Author3 Comments

Empty Churches Celebrating the Empty Tomb by Doug Bixby | April 3, 2020 The image above serves as a stark reminder of what we are all going through. It was submitted via social media during a livestream of our worship [...]

Enough is Enough

Apr 1, 2020By Linda Sladkey0 Comments

The Practice of Finding How Gratitude Leads the Way to Enough Holly W. Whitcomb Eerdmans, 160 pages Reviewed by Linda Sladkey | April 1, 2020 I quit my gratitude journal. Every day, for four years I wrote down five things for [...]

Our Place in the Race

Mar 30, 2020By Leeann Younger0 Comments

I sat in a room full of church staff as we mourned the loss of a young person to gun violence. One of the women present expressed that she found relief in the fact that through our ministry programs, we [...]

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Stay With Me

Mar 23, 2020By Guest Author0 Comments

Stay With Me Accepting Jesus’s Lenten Invitation to Vulnerability, Loss, and Grace by Jan Bros | March 23, 2020 On Transfiguration Sunday at Abbey Way Covenant Church in Minneapolis, where I serve as pastor, we print the word “Alleluia” in [...]

March/April CovSparks Available

Mar 16, 2020By Staff Author0 Comments

The COV Sparks downloadable discussion guide is now available for the January/February issue of The Covenant Companion. Based on articles from the current issue of the magazine, COV Sparks provides stimulating questions for Sunday-school classes, small-group discussions, and personal reflection.