A Disciples Presence in the Twin Cities
What is the current ministry of First Christian Church? To be a community of people loving one another.
Category: pastor's column
Jul 23, 2010 | 0 comments
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Painful/Wonderful Lessons Learned in 30 years of Ministry
Senior Pastor Bob Brite reflects on 30 years of ordained ministry.
Jun 23, 2010 | 0 comments
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Transition Team update, points of agreement
Pastor Bob Brite asks, What is the best future for First Christian for building the Kingdom of God?
Jun 11, 2010 | 0 comments
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Pastor’s Lenten Blog — Day 3 (on time)
Today is my Sabbath, my day off. I try, sometimes not very hard, to stay away from the office/church on Fridays. Staying away from work-related thoughts is something different, however. A sabbath is supposed to be a day of rest and reflection; however, I seem to use my day off to get other stuff done [...]
Feb 19, 2010 | 0 comments
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Pastor’s Lenten Blog – Day 2 (one day late)
Wednesday night we had an Ash Wednesday service with our co-Christians in the Spirit of St. Stephens Catholic Community. The day marks the beginning of Lent, a season which observes Jesus’ journey to the Cross. It’s supposed to be a time of repentance, reflection, and sacrifice. Of course, in my Lenten journey I’m already having [...]
Feb 19, 2010 | 0 comments
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Pastor’s Lenten Blog – Day 1
Greetings, brothers and sisters:
My associate/communications guru, Dennis Sanders, has been bugging me for months to start blogging on our web-site, and has even put my newsletter articles in to offer encouragement (or was it pressure?) Anyway, one of my Lenten sacrifices will be to TRY offering a daily posting, in the hope that after Lent, [...]
Feb 17, 2010 | 0 comments
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Book challenges Transition Team to consider how church can be ‘missional’ in 21st century
Among the many things I read – fiction/non-fiction, e-mails, snail mails, histories, and the like – one of the more fascinating pieces of late has been a book by Patrick Kiefert called We Are Here Now, which our Transition Team has been perusing. It talks about the new shape of Church in the 21st Century, [...]
Feb 05, 2010 | 0 comments
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Assessing progress and offering spiritual insights and challenges
Around the time of the Annual Meeting, someone asked if I would like to give my pastoral assessment of congregational progress since I began my time with you began. I’ll do so in the way of offering what I call spiritual insights.
First of all, all-in-all you are a group of beautiful human beings who I [...]
A Thank-You for Faith Sharing Efforts
On Christmas Sunday, we didn’t hit 250 people in worship, but we did have an increase in attendance of 60% over our average and, in spite of the weather, about 15 people more in our Christmas Eve service than my recollection of last year.
Now, I’m not trying to play a numbers game here, but instead [...]
Jan 23, 2010 | 0 comments
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More on “Bob and the Beard”
I hope you are all taking me up of the challenge of making me remove my beard on Sunday, December 20. If I do have to do so, I’ll leave church right after the Hymn of Commitment and (hopefully) return in time for the benediction, beardless. (I am also hopeful I won’t have a ton [...]
Dec 15, 2009 | 0 comments
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