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House of Mercy

About Me

Every Sunday, 5:00pm

This Weeks Sermon:

After the guests had become drunk? (Preacher Nathan Roberts)

House of Mercy Music Player !!!

How to Find Us: Two blocks South of Grand at 104 Snelling Ave. South Saint Paul Minnesota 55105

houseofmercy.org

Here's our BookingCollective.com page... more music!

Founded in the spring of 1996, House of Mercy offers a discriminating blend of high church and low, of tradition and innovation, sincere worship and healthy skepticism.

Although the roots of the House of Mercy are in the free church tradition--we are affiliated with the American Baptist Churches in the USA--we are committed to the diverse and rich theology and worship of the Christian church worldwide and historical. While we draw different elements of worship from many Christian ritual traditions--Lutheran, Catholic, Anglican, Orthodox, and the free churches--at House of Mercy we seek to create a place where questions are encouraged, where you will not be handed a checklist of orthodoxy, where ambiguity is not the enemy of faith but its partner. You may occasionally be led to suspend your intellect. But you will not be required to sacrifice it.

The Vision

To build a church through the recovery of grace-based theology, the practice of liturgical eclecticism, and active service in the world.

The Pastoral Staff

Rev. Debbie Blue

Rev. Russell Rathbun

Mr. Mike "Razz" Russell

More Sounds,
2007 Sermons

2006 Sermons

2005 Sermons

some more music, CP Larson with the House of Mercy Band and at House of Mercy (including Mark Olson, The Incredible Banjos, Andru Bemis, Baptism River Ramblers, Crush Collision Trio, and much more!)
and books!

Sensual Orthodoxy and From Stone to Living Word: Letting the Bible Live Again by Rev. Debbie Blue

Post-Rapture Radio: Lost Writings from the Failed Revolution at the End of the Last Century by Rev. Russell Rathbun

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 27/07/2007
Band Website: houseofmercy.org
Band Members:
Influences: Remember when you were 10 years old and you started that after school club in your parents' garage? That's just what we did. Sort of...

It all began in Russell's kitchen in St. Paul, Minnesota on a bitter cold Saturday morning in February of 1996. Debbie, Mark, and Russell–frustrated by contemporary Christian popular culture and saddened that so many of their old friends apparently wanted nothing to do with the Jesus story–asked each other: "What if we started our own church, what would it look like?"

Then came the now famous "St. Paul Blessing" of '96. After consuming some extremely hot Thai food and spending some time in their respective isolation tanks, the three young ministers simultaneously presented each other with three identical sketches of Theresa of Avila on a cocktail napkin. In each of the sketches there appeared five glyphs, which, when deciphered, yielded five identical principles that each of the pastors wanted to follow in inventing their own church.

The three of them agreed that their new church would have to be...

-Christian and not religiously generic

-Intellectually honest and rigorous

-Beyond the bounds of popular free church forms of worship and open to "liturgical eclecticism"

-Evangelical in the broad sense of being grounded in the good news of God's grace and not the bad news of shame and religious manipulation

-A stimulus for social justice, consciousness-raising, and acts of mercy.


Record Label: Mercy Recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Left Behind, CD Release shows!

House of Mercy Band "Left Behind" Release Shows at the 331 club, Friday the 18th of January and at the Turf Club, Sunday the 27th of January with Mark Thomas Stockert & Molly Maher and Her Disbeliever...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:52:00 GMT

House of Mercy Goes to War!

House of Mercy Goes to War!Featuring the Romantica, Roma di Luna, The Roe Family Singers, The House of Mercy Band and more! House of Mercy and friends sing the songs and old time hymns of war and pea...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:25:00 GMT