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Trust-filled Lament
Trust-filled Lament by Ellen Kogstad | May 4, 2020 Jesus was asked an astute question, “Lord, teach us to pray.” In this year filled with angst and fear what can we even say or pray. No words are adequate, our [...]
Pardoned
Pardoned How a life sentence in prison became the place of call for Smiley Parham by Stan Friedman | April 28, 2020 Fifty-year-old Oscar “Smiley” Parham was just five years old when his father had a heart attack and died [...]
Awkward and Holy
Awkward and Holy by Dana Bowman | April 15, 2020 I write this with both of my boys locked out of the house. Every day, from 12:30 until 2:00 p.m., I unceremoniously shove them outside, lock the door, and [...]
Back to the Heart of Ministry
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
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 [...]
The Perfection Heresy
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
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
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
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 [...]
Stay With Me
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
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.