[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] On the night before Christmas in the year 1968 Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders, the crew of Apollo 8, were further away from the earth than any human beings had been. It was the first time […]
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[To listen to this audio interview, click the Play button in the photo above. If you are using an older browser, the audio controls may not appear. In that case, you may download the audio (instructions below).] In the first part of this interview, Mel talks with Brodie Swanson, Associate Pastor of Children’s and Family
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[This article is part of the “spiritual leadership today” study/discussion going on this year. For all articles in the series, click the Spiritual Leadership tab at the top of the page. To have them delivered, subscribe to The Brook Letter] [Continued from “When Crisis Hits”] We must put out of our minds any feeling that
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[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] They say you only have one chance to make a first impression. That is because “new” can only be new once. What an impression God made at the start of all things. The very beginning of the very
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It has been thirteen weeks since we started a year-long study on renewing spiritual leadership today. If you are a follower of Christ and if you have influence in someone else’s life, you are in a position of spiritual leadership. Today we don’t need a handful of elites who claim to be “spiritual leaders.” We
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[To listen to this audio interview, click the Play button in the photo above. If you are using an older browser, the audio controls may not appear. In that case, you may download the audio (instructions below).] This is the second half of an interview with Dr. Gloria Halverson about her experiences as an Ob/Gyn
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Are you in the Milwaukee area? Interested in free, public training at Elmbrook? Elmbrook’s Women2Day ministry is hosting Spring Expo in a couple weeks. Open to men and women, Elmbrookers and non-Elmbrookers, believers and those that are questioning faith.
With the dramatic announcement of the demise of Osama bin Laden tonight I find myself recalling the somber Sunday that followed 9/11, people stunned and broken-hearted filing into the sanctuary to worship. Profound silence, many tears during communion. The day after the attack my eyes fell on Psalm 25: “No one whose hope is in
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[This article is part of the “spiritual leadership today” study/discussion. For all articles in the series, click the Spiritual Leadership tab at the top of the page. To have them delivered, subscribe to The Brook Letter] Spiritual leadership is tested in the face of crisis. And crisis is the moment when spiritual leadership is most needed.
[To listen to this audio interview, click the Play button in the photo above. If you are using an older browser, the audio controls may not appear. In that case, you may download the audio (instructions below).] In this interview Mel talks with Dr. Gloria Halverson, a professor and doctor at the Medical College of
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I thought that the dust may be settling in the controversy stirred up by Rob Bell’s book, Love Wins, but with this as a cover story of TIME Magazine—“What If There’s No Hell: A Popular Pastor’s Best-Selling Book Has Stirred Fierce Debate About Sin, Salvation, and Judgment”–it is apparent the dust storm may just be
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[This article is part of the “spiritual leadership today” study/discussion going on this year. For all articles in the series, click the Spiritual Leadership tab at the top of the page. To have them delivered, subscribe to The Brook Letter] A parable… A man decided he’d like to go for a ride. As he pulled his
Matt Jacoby is the leader of Sons of Korah, a band that puts the Psalms to music. In this interview, originally recorded in 2007, he discusses the power of the Psalms and the deep and diverse emotions expressed by the psalmist.
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Did you miss “Pursuit” last Thursday? Listen to the audio from Mel’s presentation “What Difference do the Death and Resurrection of Christ Make?” with live video guest Scot McKnight. This is the second in the “Pursuit” series of one-night presentations by Mel Lawrenz on relevant issues and questions about faith today.
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In the second half of this interview, Kem Meyer discusses her book, Less Clutter. Less Noise. and why effective communication is so essential to effective churches and successful leaders. “Treat people as if they’re smart,” says Kem. Sometimes even communication with the best intentions becomes noise…and gets ignored. “As a professional communicator, at the end of
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