Tag: Lake Minnetonka

Aboard the MainStreet Boat – 5th Anniversary Reflection

March 21, 2017

  On January 15, 2017, MainStreet Covenant celebrated our 5th anniversary. Exactly five years ago, I preached an inaugural sermon telling the story of Erik August Skogsbergh, a renowned Swedish preacher and one of the founders of the Covenant, and of his dynamic ministry in Mound in the 1890s. In those days crowds took the … More Aboard the MainStreet Boat – 5th Anniversary Reflection

Rekindling the Legacy of E.A. Skogsbergh on Lake Minnetonka

January 9, 2012

I shared this reflection on January 8, 2012, at the commissioning service at Excelsior Covenant Church one week prior to the Grand Opening of MainStreet Covenant Church in Mound, Minnesota. -JB  That night Paul had a dream: A Macedonian stood on the far shore and called across the sea, “Come over to Macedonia and help … More Rekindling the Legacy of E.A. Skogsbergh on Lake Minnetonka