Grace Makes Room for the Truth
Explore how assurance creates enough safety to tell the truth without minimizing harm or defending ourselves.
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Grace Is Not Avoidance
Distinguish grace from avoidance by practicing accountability, repair and honest attention to those who have been harmed.
Let Grace Speak First
Experiment with letting assurance speak before confession, then notice how grace changes the quality of truth-telling.
What Fruit Is Growing?
Discern the fruit growing from our practices and imagine Christian communities formed by joy, honesty, courage and repair.
Who Is in Front of You?
The Ordinary Work of Christian Leadership In Mark 6, Jesus and the disciples are confronted by an enormous crowd. The day is growing late, the people are hungry, and there is nowhere…
005 We Become What We Practice
The Slow Work of Forming Healthier Christian Communities With assistance from Judy Mitchell and Josh Daum Why Doesn’t Anything Really Change? It happens almost every Sunday. Worship has ended. People gather around…
001 Joining the Mission
Foundation #1: God’s Mission “The good news of the Gospel is that the triune God…creates, redeems, sustains, rules, and transforms all things and all people.“ F-1.01 God’s Mission The work of ministry…
001 When Barnabas Came to Town
Recognizing God’s Grace in One Another Most churches can tell stories about people who helped them become what they are today. Perhaps it was a pastor who faithfully served for many years.…
Where Are You Seeing God Now
Building Relationships As we come to this fourth conversation, we turn to a story that feels strikingly familiar to many of us—the journey on the road to Emmaus Luke 24:13–35. Two disciples…
A Hard Season
Building Relationships In Scripture, faith is not formed only in moments of clarity or blessing. It is often forged in loss, uncertainty, and the long middle where nothing seems to resolve. The…