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The early years of an infant can be very formational for that child. The experiences they are exposed to will shape their impressions and knowledge of the world. In today's episode, Pastor Dan and Shane dive into the importance of children in church and ways we can think and pray about this topic.
Book references:
Peculiar Speech: Preaching to the Baptized
Book by William Henry Willimon
&
Loaded Words: Freeing 12 Hard Bible Words from Their Baggage
Book by Heather Choate Davis and Leann Luchinger
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Odds are if you've attended a church service, the church you attended likely had some standard procedure for parents with a child or children. Whether the kids are infants, toddlers, young, or youth, that church has made a decision on whether those kids will be in church with the parents, in Sunday school, in childcare, in a nursery, or maybe even in a "kids church" during the time of worship. In this episode, Pastor Dan and Shane are joined by Brenda Schmelling as they process their experiences growing up in the church as children and even as adults growing up in a church with kids.
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We'd like to give an enormous THANK YOU to everyone who considered and helped contribute towards our Forward Together campaign. With the total amount of the campaign funds put towards the St. Luke's mortgage, we will save over $80,000 in interest alone. So, thank you so much for your sacrifices and trust in us as we move forward together for the mission of Christ. Also, join us in this episode as Pastor Dan and Shane reflect on the sacrificial nature of giving.
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As Pastor Dan and Shane continue our Advent series, Christmas is for Kids and Christmas is for Adults, we look into memories of snow days.
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"Nostalgia is a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations." - Oxford Languages
We've all been there during the Christmas time when something your senses experience takes you back to a Christmas moment or holiday memory from your past. There's something almost magical about nostalgia when it overtakes your thoughts as your brain relives memories from your younger days. In today's episode, Pastor Dan and Shane have fun as they relive some of their fond memories from their childhoods. We, also, invite listeners at home to take some time to relive your own nostalgia to keep the memories alive!
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In this episode, Brenda joins Pastor David and Pastor Dan, continuing the conversation about their experiences and perspectives on giving financial support as a discipline, an act of worship, and a mutual commitment to one another.
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The Holy Spirit calls us to faith in Jesus with one another. “I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.” We are called Forward Together. We look forward in hope to what God has promised and will accomplish, and we walk forward together. Our unity is in Christ: “from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love” (Ephesians 4:16). Why? “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10). As Christ’s church, we’re not the same without you. We walk in faith together: Forward Together.
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Join Cinderella and Prince Topher as they go behind the scenes and between the lines to talk about the upcoming St. Luke's production of Rodgers' and Hammerstein's Cinderella (2013 Broadway Version). Listen as we dive deeper into the story that we all know and love. 

Watch the show before it's too late! Get your tickets here: https://www.showtix4u.com/event-details/77309
Show times: Friday Nov. 10 ~ 7pm Saturday Nov. 11 ~ 2pm & 7pm Sunday Nov. 12 ~ 2pm Friday Nov. 17 ~ 7pm Saturday Nov. 18 ~ 2pm & 7pm Sunday Nov. 19 ~ 2pm
Location: 515 S 312th St, Federal Way, WA 98003

Eucatastrophe: "The Gospels contain a fairy-story, or a story of a larger kind which embraces all the essence of fairy-stories. They contain many marvels—peculiarly artistic, beautiful, and moving: “mythical” in their perfect, self-contained significance; and among the marvels is the greatest and most complete conceivable Eucatastrophe. But this story has entered History and the primary world; the desire and aspiration of sub-creation has been raised to the fulfillment of Creation. The Birth of Christ is the Eucatastrophe of Man's history. The Resurrection is the Eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation. This story begins and ends in joy. It has pre-eminently the “inner consistency of reality.” There is no tale ever told that men would rather find was true, and none which so many sceptical men have accepted as true on its own merits. For the Art of it has the supremely convincing tone of Primary Art, that is, of Creation. To reject it leads either to sadness or to wrath. It is not difficult to imagine the peculiar excitement and joy that one would feel, if any specially beautiful fairy-story were found to be “primarily” true, its narrative to be history, without thereby necessarily losing the mythical or allegorical significance that it had possessed…The joy would have exactly the same quality, if not the same degree, as the joy which the “turn” in a fairy-story gives: such joy has the very taste of primary truth… It looks forward (or backward: the direction in this regard is unimportant) to the Great Eucatastrophe. The Christian joy, the Gloria, is of the same kind; but it is preeminently (infinitely, if our capacity were not finite) high and joyous. But this story is supreme; and it is true. Art has been verified. God is the Lord, of angels, and of men—and of elves. Legend and History have met and fused."

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Meet Heather Choate Davis! She describes herself as "a Renaissance woman with a deeply mystical and sacramental grounding," but some might recognize he as a kind-hearted creative woman who is passionate about connecting with the people around her. In this episode, learn more about who Heather is as we discuss her latest project, Requiem in the City. Joined by Lauren and Shane Welter, hear about how Heather and Shane created the song and story of Requiem in the City as they captured the picture of a city busker coming to faith through the sacred space of church architecture and caring individuals.
Requiem in the City will be released on October 6th, 2023 on all streaming platforms including YouTube. MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
To learn more about Heather, visit her website: https://heatherchoatedavis.com/

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What a joy it is to be creative and to have an outlet for creative energy! Join us as we learn more about David Acuña. During the summer of 2023, David is interning with St. Luke's working on his video production abilities. We hope in this episode that you're able to learn more about who David is, how he got to where he is now, and what inspired him to want to create videos.
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