Resurrection Life tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1202120 2013-06-05T16:14:55-05:00 The blog of a dad, husband, Lutheran pastor, emerging, failing, conversing, confessing. TypePad ResurrectionLifehttp://feedburner.google.com The thing about your identity in Christ is this: tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452f83369e20192aac6c182970d 2013-06-05T16:14:55-05:00 2013-06-05T16:14:55-05:00 2 Pentecost 2013 2 June Galatians 1: 1-12 Pastor Chris Enstad Brothers and sisters, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Carrie and I joined about 150 other people for...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ResurrectionLife/~4/N7Eq7SU6jP0" height="1" width="1"/> Chris Enstad <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://livingtheresurrection.typepad.com/resurrection_life/2013/05/lets-commit-to-something-watching-our-childrens-life-events-through-our-eyes-not-our-screens.html" /> <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://livingtheresurrection.typepad.com/resurrection_life/2013/05/lets-commit-to-something-watching-our-childrens-life-events-through-our-eyes-not-our-screens.html" thr:count="0" /> <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452f83369e201901c48e144970b</id> <published>2013-05-17T15:17:54-05:00</published> <updated>2013-05-17T15:17:54-05:00</updated> <summary type="html">Let's commit to something: watching our children's life events through our eyes not our screens.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ResurrectionLife/~4/Zvg7jPUeJUM" height="1" width="1"/></summary> <author> <name>Chris Enstad</name> </author> </entry> <entry> <title /> <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://livingtheresurrection.typepad.com/resurrection_life/2013/04/the-enoch-factor-by-steve-mcswain-is-an-amazingly-simply-yet-challenging-book-i-have-found-it-quite-hard-to-put-it-down-sim.html" /> <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://livingtheresurrection.typepad.com/resurrection_life/2013/04/the-enoch-factor-by-steve-mcswain-is-an-amazingly-simply-yet-challenging-book-i-have-found-it-quite-hard-to-put-it-down-sim.html" thr:count="0" /> <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452f83369e2017d432281ee970c</id> <published>2013-04-26T07:35:42-05:00</published> <updated>2013-04-26T07:35:42-05:00</updated> <summary type="html">The Enoch Factor by Steve McSwain is an amazingly simply yet challenging book. I have found it quite hard to put it down. Simply put this book is the result of McSwain's mystic experience of God as Source. Far from...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ResurrectionLife/~4/Nyg-HfcdNxY" height="1" width="1"/></summary> <author> <name>Chris Enstad</name> </author> </entry> <entry> <title>Jeremiah 29:11 Capital Appeal Week Two tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452f83369e2017eea7585bc970d 2013-04-21T20:05:37-05:00 2013-04-21T20:05:37-05:00 J29 Capital Appeal Week 2 Prayer Jeremiah 29: 11-14 Pastor Chris Enstad Brothers and sisters grace to you and peace from God our Father, and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. The events of this past week have taken...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ResurrectionLife/~4/0g3nh0VzN9U" height="1" width="1"/> Chris Enstad Jeremiah 29:11 Capital Appeal Week One: Hope tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452f83369e201901b781b5e970b 2013-04-21T20:03:52-05:00 2013-04-21T20:03:52-05:00 J29 Project Week 1 Hope 14 April 2013 Jeremiah 29: 11-14 Brothers and sisters grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. First of all, thank you. Thank you for these...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ResurrectionLife/~4/qicYlwTZ3S4" height="1" width="1"/> Chris Enstad <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://livingtheresurrection.typepad.com/resurrection_life/2013/03/im-going-to-stick-this-up-here-on-my-blog-to-keep-it-in-front-of-you-and-me-there-is-a-thread-on-one-of-my-facebook-groups-t.html" /> <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://livingtheresurrection.typepad.com/resurrection_life/2013/03/im-going-to-stick-this-up-here-on-my-blog-to-keep-it-in-front-of-you-and-me-there-is-a-thread-on-one-of-my-facebook-groups-t.html" thr:count="0" /> <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452f83369e2017c382590f5970b</id> <published>2013-03-27T12:09:11-05:00</published> <updated>2013-03-27T12:09:11-05:00</updated> <summary type="html">I'm going to stick this up here on my blog to keep it in front of you and me. There is a thread on one of my facebook groups that involves a scrappy truck driver who is seeing himself forming...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ResurrectionLife/~4/z8MVifUk_w0" height="1" width="1"/></summary> <author> <name>Chris Enstad</name> </author> </entry> <entry> <title>The Whole Purpose of The Bible... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452f83369e2017d413d5252970c 2013-02-23T15:30:55-06:00 2013-02-23T15:30:55-06:00 The whole purpose of the Bible, it seems to me, is to convince people to set the written word down in order to become living words in the world for God's sake. For me, this willing conversion of ink back...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ResurrectionLife/~4/h_SJ0oYkalU" height="1" width="1"/> Chris Enstad <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://livingtheresurrection.typepad.com/resurrection_life/2013/02/the-wholehearted-identify-vulnerability-as-the-catalyst-for-courage-compassion-and-connection-in-face-the-willingness-to.html" /> <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://livingtheresurrection.typepad.com/resurrection_life/2013/02/the-wholehearted-identify-vulnerability-as-the-catalyst-for-courage-compassion-and-connection-in-face-the-willingness-to.html" thr:count="0" /> <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452f83369e2017c36fa841e970b</id> <published>2013-02-19T14:48:44-06:00</published> <updated>2013-02-19T14:59:14-06:00</updated> <summary type="html">"The Wholehearted identify vulnerability as the catalyst for courage, compassion, and connection. In fact, the willingness to be vulnerable emerged as the single clearest value shared by all women and men whom I would describe as Wholehearted. They attribute everything...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ResurrectionLife/~4/_ePRD21KHBE" height="1" width="1"/></summary> <author> <name>Chris Enstad</name> </author> </entry> <entry> <title>Mission Statements are a waste of your (and your staff and your leadership's) time tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452f83369e2017ee897604c970d 2013-02-18T10:14:26-06:00 2013-02-18T10:14:26-06:00 In reading The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business by Patrick Lencioni I stumbled on a chapter that made me smile. Blather According to Lencioni, Mission Statements are a pox set upon the organizational world by an...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ResurrectionLife/~4/ssvd5dqSLDk" height="1" width="1"/> Chris Enstad Gotta love a good Lukan head-fake: A sermon for Advent 2 2012 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452f83369e2017d3ea9446d970c 2012-12-10T10:02:29-06:00 2012-12-10T10:02:29-06:00 2 Advent 2012 Luke 3: 1-6 Pastor Chris Enstad Being a Christian follower of Jesus is at the same time the easiest and the hardest thing to be. Easy in that one need merely declare oneself a Christian and there...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ResurrectionLife/~4/5ccZv0tJTjo" height="1" width="1"/> Chris Enstad