1 By Jeff Marian In Pastor Jeff's BlogPosted March 31, 2014What Is the Purpose of Our Congregation in God’s Eyes?Growing up my family instituted a number of unusual Christmas traditions. For years we bought one another little wind-up toys. We regularly hid one another’s gifts throughout the house and sent [...] READ MORE
0 By Prince of Peace In Featured, In, MarriagePosted March 25, 2014My Spouse is Driving Me CrazyFor the past several weeks, ten couples from Prince of Peace have been participating in the Marriage Course, a series that focuses on strengthening key areas of relationships. After one of the [...] READ MORE
1 By Jeff Marian In Featured, Inspiration, Pastor Jeff's BlogPosted March 24, 2014What role does God see individual faith communities playing?Zion Lutheran Church is a congregation that was planted and flourished in a US city in the 1930’s. Made up primarily of white European immigrants the congregation numbered over 1,000 by the mid [...] READ MORE
1 By Jeff Marian In Pastor Jeff's BlogPosted March 17, 2014What difference does God envision the Church making in the world?There’s an old song I learned in Sunday School. Maybe you learned it too. It goes like this: I am the Church. You are the Church. We are the Church together All who follow Jesus, all around the [...] READ MORE
0 By Prince of Peace In Featured, OutPosted March 12, 2014MSM Students' Call to MinistryNote: Two years ago, Emma Pettis, Emma Denzer, Kayla Hokanson, Cortney Hokanson, Haley Steel, Maddie McCarthy, Isabella Hinson, Kerstyn Quittem, Emma Rognlie and Tessa Cockerill felt moved. In [...] READ MORE
0 By Prince of Peace In Featured, Inspiration, UpPosted March 11, 2014Transition RolesTransitions Seasonal change Child to Adult to Parent to Grandparent Parent/Adult now taking care of our parents Transitions for Older Adults Geographic Moves Employment to Unemployment to [...] READ MORE
1 By Jeff Marian In Pastor Jeff's Blog, VisionPosted March 10, 2014God's DreamsDreams are powerful things. They can scare us senseless or they can propel us beyond what we thought possible. Prince of Peace is in the midst of a visioning process. Having just celebrated 50 [...] READ MORE
0 By Prince of Peace In Featured, In, MarriagePosted March 4, 2014Kiss Like You Really Mean ItI recently heard a story about a bride and groom, a Japanese couple who were married in a church in Seattle shortly after they moved to the United States. In spite of their somewhat limited [...] READ MORE
1 By Jeff Marian In Pastor Jeff's BlogPosted March 3, 2014Recovering from FailureThe opening ceremonies at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia were nothing short of spectacular. Ceremony organizers estimated that 3 billion people world-wide watched the pageantry. Hosting the [...] READ MORE