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Dean Mosiman – Wisconsin State Journal – The small but engaged congregation of St. John’s Lutheran Church will soon gather a final time amid the Downtown building’s ornate woodwork and vibrant stained-glass windows. The congregation, active in the city for 167 years, will demolish its building at 322 E. Washington Ave. in a move to expand its ministry through a $46.5 million, 10-story redevelopment with a new sanctuary, community spaces and offices on the first floor topped by 130 mostly low-cost apartments above and structured parking below. Read more of this story.

David Wahlberg – Wisconsin State Journal – The Israel-Hamas war. Polarizing politics in Madison and Washington, D.C. Mass shootings. Nasty social media posts. It’s not hard to find situations in which forgiveness might make the world better. For Robert Enright, a professor of educational psychology at UW-Madison and pioneer of the scientific study of forgiveness, the first step starts at home. Only by forgiving those close to us who have harmed us can we become strong enough to think about forgiving more distant enemies, Enright said. Read more of this story.

Hope Night Wisco! Frank Lloyd Wright probably didn’t have this in mind when he first began designing what became Madison’s Monona Terrace Convention Center: a Friday night Holy Ghost revival service that filled Exhibition Hall B for three hours or more. Hope Night Wisco at Monona Terrace was the 13th event in a series of Hope Nights that started a year ago last March when a recently converted couple in Chippewa Falls decided to sell their bar and event center. Before the sale their pastor, Landon Huie of Eau Claire’s Oasis Church, suggested, “Let’s have a worship night and lift…

Madison Learning Community is offering two seminary-level courses this fall: Introduction to the Old Testament and Making Space for God.  Madison Learning Community is an initiative of the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary that launched in January to equip Madison-area pastors, church leaders, and others eager to deepen ministry skills. The learning community is representative of the church in Dane County, with currently registered students from 11 different churches and 9 denominations varying in age, race, and ministry experience. Students who were part of the spring course have described their experience as “incredibly life-giving,” “energizing,” and “life-changing.” One student exclaimed…

Are you needing HOPE in your life? Do you need healing in your body or freedom from addiction? Join us for this FREE EVENT where we will have live music and a life changing message! Our heart is to see God move across the city of Madison and release HOPE! Come if you need: • Hope • Healing • Deliverance • Freedom

PORTLAND, Oregon/CBN NEWS – Tucked away in a quiet Portland neighborhood is an animation studio that is opening the Bible to millions in a new and fresh way. An idea of some college buddies has become one of the most successful ways for people to understand the Bible. During their college days, long-time friends Tim Mackie and Jon Collins would kick around ideas on how to get more people to read the Bible and understand it better. After attending Bible college together, Jon served as a pastor before beginning a career making explainer videos for large companies. Tim got his…

The 2022-2023 Annual Report of The Collaboration Project highlights 12 months of activities aimed at bringing together the Church of Dane County in unity to promote the flourishing of all. “The kind of unity is an opportunity for the Church to be a light and a source of great hope in our world today,” writes executive director Jon Anderson. “The greater community is deeply divided, and these divides threaten the ability for all to flourish, especially for the most vulnerable.” Check out the whole report here.

By Daniel Silliman – Christianity Today – Paul Eshleman, an evangelism strategist who organized one of the largest outreach efforts of the 20th century so that everyone in the world could hear at least once that God loved them, died on May 24 at age 80. Eshleman was the director of the Jesus Film Project, producing the 1979 feature for Campus Crusade for Christ (now Cru) in partnership with Warner Bros. and overseeing its translation into more than 2,000 languages. Eshleman arranged for the film to be shown across the world, from places in rural Asia and Africa where people…

Lots of Christian music, a community-wide worship service, and a tent showing off ministries that are making a difference in Madison, will all be a part of the Bakertilly stage at Madison’s Brat Fest on Sunday, May 28, 2023. At 9am Heartland Church Band and Pastor Jon McNary lead off with a lively and energetic community-wide worship service. And then the music takes over. 11:50 – JP Got Saved 12:55 – Project Brave 1:55 – Nicky Gracious 2:55 – Kelly Roose 3:55 – One Way North 4:55 – Stars Go Dim 5:55 – Alexander Pappas 7:00 – Britt Nicole From…

The public perception of Madison is incomplete. The so-called Athens of the Midwest is indeed the home to a world-class center of learning, the University of Wisconsin, and the home of the “Sifting and Winnowing” statement, “by which alone truth can be found.” But there is another truth plaque on the University of Wisconsin campus, on the corner of South Hall, which says. “Ye shall know the truth and the truth will make you free.” These are the words of Jesus. Every day, in the Madison area, followers of Jesus are putting the Gospel into practice. Prisoners are being set…