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Deleted Scenes: Remnant (Malachi 3:13-4:6)
March 7th, 2024
If you’re even just a little bit of a fan of college basketball, you know that March is a special month. March Madness is the end-of-season NCAA tournament that begins with 68 teams and ends a few wee...  Read More
by Craig Thiessen
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Deleted Scenes: Intentional Giving Malachi 3:6-12
February 29th, 2024
When I was a kid, I would receive a $20 allowance every month. My parents would also give me clear guidelines on how that money was to be used. $10 was for saving. I actually have no memory now of wha...  Read More
by Craig Thiessen
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Deleted Scenes: Malachi 2:17-3:6 Rugged faith
February 22nd, 2024
Our staff is currently reading through “The Screwtape Letters” by C.S. Lewis. If you haven’t read it or heard about it, it’s a book Lewis wrote in 1941 that has one of the more unique formats you’ll c...  Read More
by Craig Thiessen
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Deleted Scenes: Situationships and the BC Bail (Malachi 2:10-16)
February 15th, 2024
Are we, as humans, becoming less able or willing to make relational commitments? I’ve been thinking about that question after preaching on Malachi 2:10-16 this past Sunday. Is failure to commit a phen...  Read More
by Craig Thiessen
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Deleted Scenes: Dung-faced (Malachi 2:1-9)
February 8th, 2024
At the first church I served in as a pastor, there was always a feature in the worship service called “the children’s moment”. It was where all the kids in the church would come up to the front and so...  Read More
by Craig Thiessen
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Deleted Scenes: "Everyday Sacrifice" (Malachi 1:6-14)
February 1st, 2024
In Malachi 1:6-14, something that struck me was the mindset of the priests of Malachi’s day concerning their everyday work. As I said on Sunday, they hadn’t chosen this work. It was theirs by virtue o...  Read More
by Craig Thiessen
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Deleted Scenes: "Build Back Better" (Malachi 1:1-5)
January 25th, 2024
In the aftermath of the pandemic in 2020-2021, we heard a lot of language about “building back better”. This was an idea that had apparently surfaced a bit in World Economic Forum circles in years bef...  Read More
by Craig Thiessen
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24/7 Prayer and Two Services: New, Culture-Forming Initiatives
January 11th, 2024
Flash back to March and April of 2020. When you read that sentence, your instant reaction might be “nooooo! Not that again!”  I mostly feel the same. But some good things came of those early pandemic ...  Read More
by Craig Thiessen
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Christmas Is Weird. That's Good.
December 13th, 2023
First off, I promise this article is going to have to do with Christmas. I also promise that the next two Sundays will be Christmas focused. As much as we all loved going through Acts, I was getting t...  Read More
by Craig Thiessen
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What is church membership anyway?
November 23rd, 2023
You might have heard that we are having a congregational meeting this Sunday after our worship service, and that we are holding a membership class in the evening.  And right now, you might be thinking...  Read More
by Craig Thiessen
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Give Us More Space
November 8th, 2023
Back during the height of the pandemic, while our new building was under construction, I immersed myself in the last half of the Old Testament prophet Isaiah. There were so many passages there that en...  Read More
by Craig Thiessen
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Tilling and Training
November 2nd, 2023
Last Saturday, we held our Fall Carnival here at The Bridge. As always, it was an amazing event that brought people from our surrounding community through the doors of our church building, giving them...  Read More
by Craig Thiessen
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