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As our first annual Fall Parish Mission draws to a close, we are grateful and humbled by the ways we’ve seen God work in our church. Our prayer is that Resurrection will continue to grow as a church that lives an invitational life. Resurrection's own bluegrass band! The Fall Parish Mission began on September 13th with our Festival Day. This celebration wouldn’t have been ...Continue Reading
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When I was 20 years old, I found a drowned man washed up on a Florida beach. I later learned he’d jumped off the Key Biscayne Bridge the day before. Though I was not religious at the time, I remember perceiving that what I was seeing was not simply physical death, but spiritual death as well. It left a deep and lasting impression on me.
“But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.” (9:18) When I was 20 years old, I found a drowned man washed up on a Florida beach. I later learned he’d jumped off the Key Biscayne Bridge the day before. Though I was not religious at the time, I remember perceiving that what I was seeing was not simply physical death, but spiritual ...Continue Reading
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I had an experience five years ago where my body began reacting to the fear in my mind. I was having full on anxiety attacks, the kind where your heart races, you can’t take deep breaths, and you feel like there is this raging river going through your body. I had been listening to the lies of fear for so long that my body couldn’t take it anymore and was finally breaking down.
The connection of body and mind. I had an experience five years ago where my body began reacting to the fear in my mind. I was having full on anxiety attacks, the kind where your heart races, you can’t take deep breaths, and you feel like there is this raging river going through your body. I had been listening to the lies of fear for so long that my body couldn’t take it ...Continue Reading
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“A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.” Proverbs 17:22
We had been tent-bound for three days, and it looked like we’d be stuck for a fourth and possibly a fifth. Everything was wet- the precipitation had not stopped for more that seventy continuous hours. The ripstop nylon of our tent flapped constantly in the tempest- we regularly had to brace the tent with our bodies to prevent the poles from snapping in the strong mountain gusts. Sleep was interrupted several times an hour for this reason, as was all conversation and any attempt at cooking what was left of our dwindling food supply. To add to the situation, it was the end of almost 80 days spent together in the backcountry. We were ready to go home, but couldn’t. It should have been a depressing, claustrophobic, and maddening few days.
“A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.” Proverbs 17:22 We had been tent-bound for three days, and it looked like we’d be stuck for a fourth and possibly a fifth. Everything was wet- the precipitation had not stopped for more that seventy continuous hours. The ripstop nylon of our tent flapped constantly in the tempest- we regularly had to ...Continue Reading
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I have faith that Sasquatch exists; I look for him while backpacking in the Pacific Northwest. I have faith that justice is real. I try to treat others fairly and am angered when people are treated unfairly. I have faith in Jesus. I make it a goal to follow him with my actions; I try to do what he tells me to do. Continue Reading
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I’m a new mother. Fresh. Utterly inexperienced. My husband and I have not yet earned witty anecdotes or sage truths to share at parties. My little girl is brand new, too. While her personality was shockingly evident in the very beginning, her formation happens slowly everyday. Our little family is trying to figure this thing out together, so we hold fast to God’s promise found in Proverbs.
“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” {Proverbs 22.6} I’m a new mother. Fresh. Utterly inexperienced. My husband and I have not yet earned witty anecdotes or sage truths to share at parties. My little girl is brand new, too. While her personality was shockingly evident in the very ...Continue Reading
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Can the Proverbs 31 Life be Mine? Is this Proverbs 31 woman for real? Sewing late into the night by a lamp that does go out, gorgeous toned arms planting a vineyard, a prominent husband, self designed purple clothes and children that get up in the morning and praise her? All of that sounds like an unattainable biblical ideal. Reflecting on who you know that might fit this description is an ...Continue Reading
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I hate underwater scenes in movies. Those images of shadowy water speckled with sea rubble conjure up a sense of both vastness and crushing weight that makes my chest constrict. Yet here I am confronted with this thought–that the purpose of my heart is like deep water–deep, opaque water, difficult to navigate without a paralyzing consciousness of sin. Thank heavens for the second image: a friend of understanding holding a bucket with a long cord, dropping far down to penetrate the depths of my soul.
“The purpose of a man’s heart is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.” I hate underwater scenes in movies. Those images of shadowy water speckled with sea rubble conjure up a sense of both vastness and crushing weight that makes my chest constrict. Yet here I am confronted with this thought–that the purpose of my heart is like deep ...Continue Reading
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“Poverty is the result of relationships that don’t work” (Bryant Myers, World Vision).
As a student at Wheaton College, I developed a desire to help the poor. I read all the right books, heard the inspirational speakers and was rearing and ready to go. But there was a problem: I was living in a dorm of (generally) wealthy college students in the middle of one of the wealthiest suburbs in the nation. How was I supposed to help the poor? I would probably have to just cut a check to some distant organization…or not. I began by asking God to show me how I could begin helping the poor right where I was.
Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered. (Proverbs 21.13) “Poverty is the result of relationships that don’t work” (Bryant Myers, World Vision). As a student at Wheaton College, I developed a desire to help the poor. I read all the right books, heard the inspirational speakers and was rearing and ready to go. But ...Continue Reading
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Our relationship as Christians to the government is something of a puzzle to me. On one hand we are sojourners – strangers in this land – not citizens. As such, we answer to a higher authority (Ephesians 1:21).On the other hand, we are called to submit ourselves to the local authority (1 Peter 2:13 “Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every authority instituted ...Continue Reading
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935 W. Union Ave.
Wheaton, IL 60187
630-653-3888
Church of the Resurrection
Copyright © 2012
9:00 AM & 11:00 AM
935 W. Union Ave.
Wheaton, IL 60187