Tag: Lent

  • 2017.04.02 – When Kingdoms Collide featuring Pastor Brenna Zeimet

    “2017.04.02 – When Kingdoms Collide featuring Pastor Brenna Zeimet” A sermon from Heights Church. More information at HeightsChurchMN.org  Subscribe in an RSS reader or on iTunes

  • 2017.03.05 – First Sunday of Lent – Temptation of Christ

    “2017.03.05 – First Sunday of Lent – Temptation of Christ” A sermon from Heights Church. More information at HeightsChurchMN.org  Subscribe in an RSS reader or on iTunes

  • The darkness and the dawn

    When we think we’ve made it on our own, there are times the Lord may step back a bit and let us “revel” in our “self-made” achievements.

  • The season of submission and examination

    The invitation is to come and listen.

  • Lent — Dealing with the hatred in our hearts

    Lent is a time to deal with the ugliness in our lives.

  • How does love become unconquerable?

    How does love become unconquerable? By never asking what the enemy is doing to it, and only asking what Jesus has done. Loving one’s enemies leads disciples to the way of the cross and into communion with the crucified one. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Lord, I confess I all too often want my enemies crushed… and hoping to be there when…

  • Treasure

    Jesus goes right after our idols. He goes after our treasures. He need full surrender, not just correct answers. Jesus looked at him and loved him. “One thing you lack,” he said. “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” (Mark 10:21, NIV)

  • Words that sound incredibly strange from Bonhoeffer

    The way to wholeness and healing is to recognize there is a sickness.

  • There really isn’t “personal” sin

    Every act of self-discipline by a Christian is also a service to the community. Conversely, there is no sin in thought, word, or deed, no matter how personal or secret, that does not harm the whole community. When the cause of an illness gets into one’s body, whether or not anyone knows where it comes from, or in what member…

  • Community of Christ

    Whoever cannot be alone should beware of community. Whoever cannot stand being in community should beware of being alone. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer 4 For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5 so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the…