Heartland Community Church THE JOURNEY Resilient: Boldness By Debbie Kirk Paul was experiencing a wide range of emotions during his visit to Athens. He was distressed, disappointed and discouraged at what he saw as he observed their city. But instead of defeating him, it gave him a boldness of...
Heartland Community Church THE JOURNEY Resilient: One Another By Meghan Hemenway My dad had a collection of beer steins when I was growing up. One of them had an authentic piece of the Berlin Wall on the top of its lid – a bit a concrete rubble. He was...
Heartland Community Church THE JOURNEY Resilient: Leveraging Power By Bill McMurtrey Keith was my best buddy for a great number of years. We met in the ARMY. We were young, 19, 20ish, our job was to jump out of helicopters and go find bad guys. Keith eventually was the best man...
Heartland Community Church THE JOURNEY Resilient: Outsiders In By Grant Houske I must admit that after watching today’s message from Seth I felt some “writers block” on how to approach this reflection. Seth did a wonderful job of applying real perspective to the message. I thought about trying to...
Heartland Community Church THE JOURNEY Resilient: Love By Lisa Zulke There is so much dis- right now. Disorienting. Discouraging. Disconnected. Disrespected. Disengaged. Name your dis- . . . we are all feeling it in some way. The world is not right. We are not in control. Above and over...
Heartland Community Church THE JOURNEY Resilient By Rhonda Stock I grew up in an old-school Pentecostal church where we had “Revivals” several times a year. A Revival could go a week or longer, with services every night that might last well past 10 p.m. A Revival usually featured a...
Heartland Community Church THE JOURNEY The Story Continues: God’s Movement By Marnie Vasquez, for Carolyn Petersen Smoosh, smoosh, ouch. “Hold your breath.” Click. “Other side. Left arm up. Left hip in.” More smooshing and ouching. “Hold your breath.” Click. “We’re done. Please put your clothes on and let’s talk.”...
Heartland Community Church THE JOURNEY The Story Continues: God’s Family By Meghan Hemenway The weekend my dad died he gave my sons a tube of sand-colored army men. We were spending the week at the family lake house with my dad and this toy started a perfect game of...
Heartland Community Church THE JOURNEY The Story Continues: God’s Spirit By Bill McMurtrey If you were online today when Seth spoke and read the chat comments, you could feel the sense of yearning for connectivity. People saying hello to each other . . . there were even new and first...
Heartland Community Church THE JOURNEY The Story Continues: God’s Mission By Brooke Hodnefield A lot has happened over the course of 40 days in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus and his on-looking disciples. I recently learned not more than a month ago, that when we see ‘40...