Matt Tebbe

Dear Church, It’s Holy Week. Lent culminates in Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and then leads us into Eastertide on Easter Sunday. We will have services on every day but Saturday (maybe next year?) and these are some of the highest and holiest days…

Dear Church, Our Lenten journey continues this week; we are just over the halfway point until Easter. Some realizations are emerging from our discussions on Mammon together that I want to name for us all:  This Mammon ‘thing’ is bigger and deeper than most of…

Dear Church, Lent begins today, Ash Wednesday, with the imposition of ashes: “From dust you came, and to dust you will return.” Two years of Covid feels like an unending confrontation with our mortality, eh? As if we needed more of this right now? 🙂…

Church!  What a triumphant and beautiful first Sunday in our new worship space. Here are a few pics from our time together: We are still working out all the ‘ins and outs’ of being in this space together. If you have thoughts or feedback of…

Dear Church, Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Here’s a brief reflection from our friend, Greg Thompson, on how MLK, Jr. was all about love.  As we wind down on our time at Spirit of Joy and prepare for our new season in the chapel at Broadway…

Dear Church, We are about half way through Advent and we haven’t communicated about Christmas Eve yet! There are a couple reasons for this: We’ve been busy looking for a new worship space for 2022 and that has taken up a lot of our focus…

Dear Church, As we approach Advent, our church is full with activity:  We’ll have an all-church meeting this Sunday, Nov 21 at 9:30am in the Fellowship Hall. We’ll discuss some vision for the coming year, updates on our search for a new place and time…

Dear Church, I want to share two things with you this week: 1) We had our first Table 101 class on Sunday. We discussed the history of our church, along with our vision, mission, and practices. If you missed it, take some time to listen…

Dear Church, This week we proclaimed good news about learning to honor godly wisdom in our church: that which is pure, peaceable, gentle, willing to change, full of mercy and good virtue, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy (James 3:17). James says this is…

Hello Church! Just a few quick updates:  1) The Table 101 We talked about doing a Table 101 class this fall, but as we weighed the current spike in the pandemic numbers due to the Delta Variant, as well as the beginning (soon!) of fall…