The Rosewood Community Garden is getting ready for Spring, and getting ready for you!

I got an urgent phone call last week from one of our community members saying, “Ryan, we’ve got to do something!  DART is canceling all Sunday service and I wont be able to come to church anymore!” Dial-A-Ride Transportation (DART) is a paratransit service that provides transportation for people whose disability or condition prevents them [...]

I want to like love songs.  I do.  But most of what passes for a love song is enmeshed co-dependent disfunction.  I know too much for my heart to swoon to that ear candy.  But, every once in a while there comes a rare a love song that knows the cost and complexity of loving. [...]

This is a guided meditation for a small group or just you right now.

Unlikely you’ve seen this before – a communion liturgy incorporating “Auld Lang Syne”, Champaign, and Toasts to Christ. Somehow it works out to be both celebratory and sacred. Feel free to use this with creativity.

Poetry by Todd Johnson – the incarnation remixed in a modern setting.

Hey, we’re having a Christmas Eve service 6pm at Rosewood Manor (8104 220th st. sw Edmonds) and it’s on Christmas Eve! (redundant.) Okay.  What we’ve done is take out most of the stuff that you don’t like about Christmas (like really awkward family members, the little drummer boy, obligatory gift giving, commercial hype etc.) and [...]

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When Bonnie and I first had Moses I told myself that I was going to resist the urge to make sermon illustrations out of my experience of fatherhood, but now here I am.  The urge is just too strong… Because if you have any doubt that there is such a thing as “original sin”, meaning that humans don’t have [...]

This essay was first delivered to mission developers in Greeley Co. at a “Churches starting Churches” conference. Ironically, they were inspired rather than buried under futility and asked for the essay to be posted. So here it is friends. Keep confessing.