Part 3 of our Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Teaching series. Laura VanNorman leads us on an experiential healing journey to explore how our families of origin influence our spiritual lives. Listen in and reflect. 

Pastor ChristianAnn leads us to a discussion about how we grow through family pains. She takes a look at Jesus' own life to understand how we navigate family in our lives and specifically in the uniqueness of our Minnesota culture and family of origins. 

Listen in as Pastor CA explores the story of the prodigal son and how it can help us grow through the pain caused by distorted images of God we may have. 

What if we are living out of others' expectations for us rather than who God made us to be? What if we can know God more deeply by having the courage to be more deeply honest with ourselves?  Explore all this and more by joining us in the next teaching of our Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Teaching Fall teaching series lead by Adaobi Nduka.

Sunday we started a new dinner church discussion series called Growing Pains. In this series, we are looking at Jesus Stories that highlight the ways Jesus navigated tensions we all experience as we grow as humans. This week we look at Jesus' temptation (luke 4:4-13) where Jesus is tempted in ways that reflect how we are constantly tempted. 

Emotional maturity and spiritual maturity are inseparable, it is not possible to be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature.

Start a journey towards more emotionally healthy spirituality with us. Listen in to the first week's teaching from Pastor JD on what sets us up for emotionally healthy spirituality, and what Emotionally UNhealthy spirituality can look like. 

JD explores these 10 symptoms of emotionally UNhealthy spirituality:

North City is taking a Sabbath ( A break - no community dinner) Sunday. Our community values a rhythm of sabbath in our lives, not just as an occasional practice but as a way of life.

Sabbath is a sort of resistance... a resistance to the "must do and have everything now" culture we live in. Sabbath is a faith-filled stopping, that says "God is providing, and our identity is not in what we achieve it's based in God's family."

Because we are engaging in this practice this weekend we thought we would repost this old teaching by Pastor Sabbath is a faith-filled stopping, that about the Sabbath as a way to reengage our imagination around what Sabbath can be for us, and for you. ou. active but also a way of life.

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Listen in to the Jesus stories we share at our Community Dinners. 

This weeks story is about how Jesus stops to see, befriend and invite Zachious into the family of God 

Why did Jesus lavishly save a wedding from near calamity? What does it tell us about God's response to calamities in our lives? Listen in to this sermon Pastor JD preached at our partner church Mill City Church and hear how Jesus' love shows us a different way to see (God, ourselves, and others) and a different way to be (signposts of God's agape love). 

Also! Pod listener, we want to hear from you... what do sort of equipping do you want to hear on this podcast (beyond sermons, which we hope to get back in a rhythm of posting here). Let us know by texting thoughts to 612-439-7432 or emailing [email protected] Thanks! 

Pastor Christian Ann Larson preached during the Combine Service at Brookdale on Pentecost Sunday.