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The Intown Newsletter, Issue #9 -

The Intown Newsletter, Issue #9 Dear Intown Family, What is a healthy church? By "healthy" we don't mean "perfect" (obviously), but we also don't mean "large" or "growing at steady rate." Healthy churches do tend to grow, but there are a number of factors related to growth that can also have nothing to do with spiritual health.  ...

The Intown Newsletter, Issue #8 -

The Intown Newsletter, Issue #8 Dear Intown Family, Depending on which lectionary calendar one follows, this Sunday could be the First Sunday of Christmastide, the Second Sunday of Christmastide, the Circumcision and Holy Name of our Lord, or the Epiphany of our Lord. There are probably more possibilities. Oh, and of course it's a...

Intown will be having a very special Christmas Eve service at 4pm at Zion Lutheran Church (our new church home!). Bring your family and friends that are celebrating with you and enjoy an intimate candle lit service as we welcome the birth of our Savior! 🎄🕯️🎄

The Intown Newsletter, Issue #7 -

The Intown Newsletter, Issue #7 Dear Intown Family, St Peter: "And so, dear friends, while you are waiting for these things to happen [the Day of the Lord, his Second Advent], make every effort to be found living peaceful lives that are pure and blameless in his sight." Peaceful and blameless lives. That is, the apostle says that....

The Intown Newsletter, Issue #6 -

The Intown Newsletter, Issue #6 Dear Intown Family, Christian adults have, by and large, lost the wonder of anticipation. Our children have not. Their anticipatory drive is so strong and obvious that describing it is superfluous. As we age, why does hopeful anticipation slowly get replaced by apathy, lethargy, or perhaps mere exis...

The Intown Newsletter, Issue #5 -

The Intown Newsletter, Issue #5 There are a number of words in the Christian tradition that didn't make an appearance in my childhood church tradition. Ash Wednesday, Lent, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday (for the most part), and Epiphany certainly make that list. Advent is another one of those words that belonged to a foreign relig...

The Intown Newsletter, Issue #4 -

The Intown Newsletter, Issue #4 Dear Intown Family, Show of hands, how many of you opened this edition of our esteemed Newsletter expecting to see something on gratitude or Thanksgiving? That's what I thought. Sorry to disappoint, but at times my contrarianism is so overwhelming that resistance is futile. So, here are today's medi...

The Intown Newsletter, Issue #3 -

The Intown Newsletter, Issue #3 There are plenty of studies out there around models of church, especially as it relates to size. Some of them are more enlightening than others. None of them are the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Intown Newsletter, Issue #2 -

Intown Newsletter, Issue #2 Although I never met him, one of my spiritual mentors is Eugene Peterson. Like other good authors, when you read Peterson you start to get into a rhythm so that eventually you're floating along the pages, rather than fixating or analyzing each word or sentence. He's poetic, which means he's not sayi...