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The Moses Project
Aug 24, 20212 min read
Womanist Work by Dean Yolanda Pierce
It is Paul Tillich who reminds us that theologian is one who has made “an existential decision” to stand on the boundary between...
The Moses Project
Jul 7, 20217 min read
A Sermon on Moses for the Moses Project by Reverend Nicole Woodley
Well, yesterday afternoon when Steve said it’s every preacher's dream or nightmare to be told to preach on whatever you want. It’s...
The Moses Project
May 20, 20213 min read
Remarks to Rural Pastors from Kent Henning, President of Grand View University
On Tuesday, May 11, 2021 rural pastors from all over the Midwest gathered at Luther Memorial Church in Des Moines, Iowa. A worship...
The Moses Project
Mar 25, 20211 min read
Finding Courage to Build, Even During a Pandemic by Rev. Dr. Russell Lackey
Russell Lackey was recently published with Missio Alliance: Providing resources for soul care, ministry tools you can use right now, and...
The Moses Project
Mar 9, 20213 min read
Innovation & the Church: Practical Ideas to Preserve Tradition & Lead Change by Rev. Grant Woodley
The word “innovation” doesn’t strike the same level of fear in people as the word “change” does. Yet, when people hear this word used at...
The Moses Project
Jan 28, 20215 min read
A Moses Project Winter Retreat Sermon by Rev. Sarah Ciavarri
Let me take you into the skilled nursing facility where I’m the Dir. Of Spiritual Care. COVID has changed everything. It started with a...
The Moses Project
Jan 26, 20216 min read
HE Has Eaten Your Food by Rev. Bob Chell
I choose to believe the Apostle Paul was thinking about writing a sermon when he penned these words in 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 16 So we do...
The Moses Project
Jan 26, 20214 min read
Keep the Central Things Central by Rev. Steve Peterson
Sermon from the January Moses Retreat 2021 Scripture reading Matthew 11 28 "Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy...
The Moses Project
Jan 25, 20212 min read
Happiness Can Be....A Rural Call! by Rev. Margaret Yackel-Juleen
Having grown up in a suburban neighborhood in the sixties and seventies, going to college in an urban setting, then serving as a...
The Moses Project
Nov 10, 20202 min read
Decision Fatigue, Gratitude, and Golf with Rev Chad Whaley
It’s awfully hard to make plans right now, Pastor Chad Whaley, acknowledged. “It’s challenging to rally people at church. Decisions need...
The Moses Project
Nov 4, 20204 min read
How a “Dialogical Lens” Can Help Preachers Craft Sermons in the “Purple Zone” by Leah D. Schade
Teaser: Using a ‘dialogical lens’ for scripture and preaching can open new options for “Purple Zone” sermons in the red-blue divide....
The Moses Project
Oct 29, 20202 min read
A Picture of Resilience and Whole-Hearted Living with Rev Patti Meyer
If the dictionary published pictures with its definitions, you’d see Patti Meyer’s face beside the word resilient. Rev. Meyer serves as...
The Moses Project
Oct 26, 20203 min read
If I Knew Then What I Know Now by Rev. Andrea Severson
When I was invited to share at a Moses Project retreat last January, I was given the impossible task of sharing all the things I wish I'd...
The Moses Project
Oct 20, 20202 min read
Look for the Simple: Wisdom from Pastors on Avoiding Burnout - A conversation with Rev. Amy Truhe
I was talking to Pastor Amy Truhe on the phone when she gave me this piece of advice for surviving pastor burnout: “everybody needs to...
The Moses Project
Oct 13, 20202 min read
Everything Has Changed; Nothing Has Changed By Reverend Bob Chell
It was 1969. I was a junior in high school and our Luther League drove from Rapid City to Sioux Falls to attend a gathering at Augustana...
The Moses Project
Oct 6, 20204 min read
Mickey Mouse and Resilient Leadership by Tod Bolsinger, De Pree Center Church Leadership Initiative
I was once Mickey Mouse’ bodyguard. For one evening. For about 2 hours. But it altered the way I saw the world and today deeply impacts...
The Moses Project
Aug 24, 20204 min read
Rural Ministry in a Time of Plague by Richard Lischer
Reflections on Open Secrets: A Memoir of Faith and Discovery In the Gospels many of the episodes in Jesus’s ministry have their origin in...
The Moses Project
Jul 28, 20203 min read
How Do We Develop Self-Awareness? with Pastor Sarah Ciavarri
We are living the history that Ph.D. candidates will pull apart for years to come and the history junior high students will study for...
The Moses Project
Jul 21, 20204 min read
Listening is a Profound Way of Doing by Pastor Bob Chell
It is ironic that my best insight in being an effective pastor came one week before my official retirement. It wasn’t new to me although...
The Moses Project
Jul 14, 20203 min read
Patience & Persistence from Pastor Nicole Woodley
I’m a Madison girl (that’s my mother’s maiden name). My mother and her three sisters grew up helping at their parent’s restaurant. They...
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