“Good Plans”
Kris Thulson2025-05-16T15:30:33-06:00For the past few weeks we have introduced the song “Good Plans” by Red Rocks Worship. This song is based in the heart of Psalm 23. Read the passage below: Psalm 23 A psalm [...]
Help in Sorrow
Sherry Sommer2025-05-17T22:11:16-06:00Scripture teaches that God gives us good and perfect gifts (James 1:17), yet loss and grief are inevitably part of the human experience. How do we live in this world? I once attended a [...]
Recalling Past Sorrow
Kathleen Petersen2025-05-16T14:39:13-06:00Recently I re-read a portion of my Aunt Josephine’s life story. She was the middle sibling of five, with my dad being the oldest. The children lost a younger brother early on. Then, when [...]
While We Wrestle…Bargaining, Longing for a Better Outcome
Kris Thulson2025-05-16T14:19:01-06:00Facing Grief My first experiences of intense grief were borrowed: I watched as others grieved, children and mothers gone too soon; grieved cruelty born from racism; and grieved loss from upheaval and displacement. [...]
Lamentation
Aaron Bjorklund2025-06-19T10:33:17-06:00It was a muggy night, and we sat on old couches from the 1970s in a concrete building. We had landed in Ivory Coast, West Africa, less than 48 hours before, and we were [...]
Red Couch Theology Podcast
Aaron Bjorklund2025-06-19T10:33:19-06:00Sermon Conversations with Alex and Aaron There’s only so much we can cover in a Sunday morning gathering! Each week, you’re invited to tune into our LIVE podcast at 11 am on Thursdays – [...]
Awe, Shock… and Awe
Sherry Sommer2025-04-07T14:32:54-06:00Empires awe us with their power, yet Revelation tells us that they are doomed to crumble. After the dust of empires settles, once and for all, we believe that the greatest and most glorious [...]
Fixing Babylon
Kathleen Petersen2025-04-04T09:55:40-06:00When the Apostle John described Babylon in Revelation 18, his readers understood it to be the Rome of their day. Some of Rome’s rulers had been engaging in horrifying persecution of Christians. Therefore, early [...]
Where is Babylon Today?
Aaron Bjorklund2025-06-19T10:33:19-06:00Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea, and said: (The Finality of Babylon’s Doom) “With such violence the great city of [...]
The Empire of Our Lives
Carie Grant2025-04-04T09:14:22-06:00…the master of all I survey My mother just celebrated her 93rd birthday. She is in stage 4 congestive heart failure. Scoliosis, along with a raging case of polio as a young [...]
