PRACTICE: Worship

What’s your song? The one you play in the car on the way home from work. The one you danced to at your wedding. The one…


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PRACTICE: Feasting

Food, glorious food. It sustains and nourishes. It delights. It carries memory: the collective stories and traditions…


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PRACTICE: Fasting

Fasting! Please, hold your applause. Try to contain your excitement. We know this is the practice you’ve been waiting…


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PRACTICE: Prayer

Imagine the person who knows your history like their own, the friend who sees your fears and doesn’t flinch. Your…


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Parenting Teens in an Age of Screens

God has a vision for your life and for your teen’s life. It is for us all to become more like Jesus – more…


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PRACTICE: Slowing

Take a moment. (Yes, now.) Inhale deeply. Exhale slowly. Rest. Reflect. Are you reading this while waiting in line…


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PRACTICE: Scripture

The Word of God is sacred and complex. Simultaneously polarizing and unifying. Scripture has been used to...


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July Social Media Fast

Summer is in full swing in beautiful Colorado. To create more time to encounter God through things like...


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PRACTICE: Generosity

For many, the word “generosity” evokes a range of beautiful, uneasy, or even painful feelings. Love and relief after…


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PRACTICE: Community

Our guiding word for 2023 is, “Practice.” If you wrestle with perfectionism, this word may have made you rejoice.


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PRACTICE

January. The time of year culture tells us to set our intentions. We sign up for a gym membership—always the annual…


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Roe V. Wade Pastoral Letter

Last week, after 50 years of legal standing, Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court, pushing abortion laws…


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Letter to Mill City Church

Racism breaks my heart, and the heart of God. It is evil and real, today.  This is an issue we have not adequately…


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How Rhythms Ground us in Times of Chaos (feat. John Mark Comer)

Schedules and ways of going through our days and weeks get thrown off in seasons of disruption. Rhythms and structures…


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Cultivating Inner Peace (feat. Rich Villodas)

Even when things are calm on the outside, we can be unsettled on the inside. It doesn’t have to be that way. We can…


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Examen

The challenge: learning to live close to the heart of God and be attentive to your own spirit. Only then do we discern…


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Re: Work

Work isn’t a paycheck, a job, or a title. It is so much bigger than that. Work is what God did to create the world and…


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Sabbatical Rest

As a way of embracing our value of practicing sustainable rhythms we provide a sabbatical for every employee after…


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Advent

We adjust our lives around time. Clothing and schedules are different in the fall than the summer. We set goals and…


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Our Beliefs

Our beliefs are summarized in The Apostles Creed. The Apostles Creed for us is the clearest, most unifying, and concise…


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The Bible Is True

Every year as the calendar approaches Easter, the weeks leading up to the superbowl of Christian holy days are filled…


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Lament

God is calling us out of hiding into a full and flourishing life; one where we travel freely and lightly. To get there,…


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Women in Ministry

There are various responsible and respectable Biblical interpretations on the role of women in positions of ministry…


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Water Baptism

Water baptism has been practiced throughout the history of the church starting in the book of Acts (Acts 2:41; 8:12;…


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