As a church family, we’re taking the month of July to read through the Psalms together in our Bible reading plan, SOAP. If you haven’t tried SOAP before, it’s simply a method that we use at River Valley to read the Bible together. We…
The world is a very loud place. With social media, news and the opinions of our neighbors and coworkers all seem to bring us to an information overload by 3 pm. In the midst of all the noise, how in the world am I…
If you pick up a Bible and you’ve never read it before, the logical place to begin reading is at the beginning of the story. If you’ve been reading the Bible for a bit, you probably know that this doesn’t always strike a chord…
What a week. It’s the only words I could muster to describe what transpired in Minneapolis and St. Paul over the last 7 days. The irony is it’s the same words I used to describe the onset of a global pandemic that shook the…
Recently, a mentor of mine talked about an image that has really stuck with me. He told me to picture a snow globe being shaken vigorously, and then imagine what happens next. When the globe is set down in stillness, the fast, hurrying flakes…
