Music Videos | Directory | Search | Top Artists | Shows | Music Forums | Music Classifieds | Artist Signup 

House of Mercy
Gospel / Country / Blues

"You should come; it's not that bad."

St. Paul, MN,
United States

Profile Views:  5858




Last Login:  7/6/2008
View My: Pics | Videos

   Contacting House of Mercy

 MySpace URL: 
  http://www.myspace.com/mercychurch  

   House of Mercy: General Info
Member Since7/27/2007
Band Websitehouseofmercy.org
Band Members
InfluencesRemember 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 LabelMercy Recordings
Type of LabelIndie




House of Mercy's Latest Blog Entry  [Subscribe to this Blog]

Left Behind, CD Release shows!  (view more)

House of Mercy Goes to War!  (view more)

[View All Blog Entries]

   About House of Mercy
Every Sunday, 5:00pm

499 Wacouta Street St. Paul, Minnesota 55101

This Weeks Sermon:

Shame of the Righteous (Rev. Russell Rathbun)

House of Mercy Music Player!!!

How to Find Us:

Link to Google Map

S on 35E: take the Wacouta Street Exit.

E on 94: take the 7th Street Exit (242c)

N on 35E:take the 9th Street Exit (242b

Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

houseofmercy.org

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


   House of Mercy's Friend Space (Top 40)
House of Mercy has 332 friends.
 -jason 


 Erik Brandt and the Urban Hillbilly Quartet 


 The Brass Kings 


 Crush Collision Trio 


 Charlie Parr 


 Victoria 


 Violent Femmes and Horns of Dilemma 


 Jeremy 


 eliza blue 


 The Mill City Grinders 


 Romantica 


 DitchLilies 


 The Dad In Common 


 The Bitter Spills 


 The Poor Nobody's 


 LOUDRAY 


 Jake 


 Molly Maher and Her Disbelievers 


 Mark Olson 


 Sarah Joy 


 Jonathan 


 Angel 


 Kim 


 juell 


 Kari Jean 


 Thomas "hookhead" Case 


 Nell 


 BlackCat n’ Bones 


 tuesdays robot 


 Steve Kaul 


 Meg Ashling 


 Roma di Luna 


 Jennifer Markey and Her Buckboard Boys 


 Brett Larson 


 The Floorbirds 


 Martin Devaney 


 Mikkel 


 the Roe Family Singers 


 Cattle Gate 


 THE DAD HORSE EXPERIENCE 





House of Mercy's Friends Comments
Displaying 31 of 31 comments  ( View All | Add Comment )
Barbara





Jul 1 2008 1:28 AM

http://cyberthing. net/video-play. php?id=105

This is soooooooooo COOOOOOOOOOL!
It's about these guys who visit a lion cub that they had released back into the wild the previous year.
612 CREW





Jun 18 2008 7:17 PM

Visit Minnesota





Jun 5 2008 12:19 PM

Thanks for being a friend of Minnesota!

Join My Community at MyBloglog!
THE DAD HORSE EXPERIENCE





Jun 1 2008 3:58 AM

thanks for pulling me out.
these is a cool place apparently and i would like to stop by one day--- dad
LOUDRAY





May 11 2008 1:31 PM

LOUDRAY with Cadillac Kolstad and the Flats!!!

Lee's Liquor Lounge

Thursday May 15th
9pm $5

Nikki Matteson and her Ruemates open!!

Be there!!



Welcome,
LOUDRAY
Visit Minnesota





May 8 2008 9:38 AM

Celebrate Minnesota’s 150th birthday.

Visit Minnesota!
Jennifer Markey and Her Buckboard Boys





May 3 2008 8:35 PM

Thanks for the great recordings!
612 CREW





Apr 18 2008 4:18 PM

LOUDRAY





Apr 12 2008 4:08 PM

Here it is, again, and again, and again!!

Hamline Avenue Spring Folk Festival

Saturday May, 3rd 12 noon
J& S Bean Factory
1342 Thomas ave.


St.

Paul, MN 55104
651-645-6466

Appearing, but not limited to,

OUTSIDE
1pm LOUDRAY
2pm Pop Wagner
3pm Charlie Parr
4pm The Townhall Stompers
5pm The Bitter Spills
6pm Nikki and Rich
7pm The Roe Family Singers
INSIDE
12:30- banjo camp
1:30-clogging demo
2- songriters forum
4:30- Ellen Stanely aka Mother Banjo
5:30- Eliza Blue
6:30- "Sneaky" Pete Bauer
8pm Sans Souci Quartet
9pm LOUDRAY

there will be plenty of coffee and food provided by Alexander Dixon of the late great Zander Cafe!!!

We are asking for a donation of somewhere between $5 and $10, with most of the money going to the LOUDRAY community development scholarship.



Tell your friends, tell your family, and tell your neighbors!

Thank you and happy spring!
LOUDRAY
LOUDRAY





Mar 27 2008 1:24 PM

Hey there,

A little update from the band. our neighbor and washtub player Kurt recently was hospitalized with apendicitis, and will be out of work for THREE WEEKS!! So, we are going to host a fundraiser for him at the 331 club on Friday April 4th. The show is already on the books, but we are gonna ask for extra assistance and donations to help him out. We appreciate it if everyone would come out, and even if you don't tip us or contributr to the "Tubbs Fund" directly, the busier the bar is, the bigger our bonus.

We appreciate your help!

LOUDRAY
LOUDRAY





Mar 22 2008 3:18 PM

COME ON OUT!!!!

FRIDAY 4+4=8 (that's 4/4/08)
AT THE 331 club!!!

9pm Brett Larson

10pm Jon Rodine

11pm LOUDRAY!!!!

free, free, free!!!

be there!!

LOUDRAY
Visit Minnesota





Feb 28 2008 6:26 PM

Thanks for being a friend. Come to the Visit Minnesota Website and cook up some Minnesota State Symbol Recipes!
612 CREW





Feb 16 2008 3:22 PM

Photobucket
Lady Franklin





Feb 7 2008 12:11 AM

Churches? And good music? Who knew? 'Tis lovely that there are such things. We shall mayhap trip on by.

lady franklin
Raja Daja





Jan 1 2008 12:52 PM

Happy New Year! ... let's hope it's a good one, without any fear.
Roger
Brianna Lane





Nov 27 2007 2:28 PM

Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket
Arise Bookstore





Nov 4 2007 9:01 AM

advance tickets are on sale at arise! (2441 lyndale ave s)....the price has been reduced to $5-8 advance due to the cancellation of attila the stockbroker.
Kari Jean





Oct 29 2007 9:25 AM

Thanks, dear House of Mercy Band, for playing Mercy Seat's show last night. It was so, so, so, so good to hear you again...so good. So good.
dalton art





Oct 14 2007 12:26 PM

Howdy House Of Mercy .... thanks, fat danny ...Lord Have Mercy !
LOUDRAY





Oct 13 2007 3:03 PM

Hello all, many of you know that LOUDRAY's banjo player, Hatpan Sixscrews also played with the late great Pocahontas County. Well, Pocahontas is getting back together for a reunion set this December, Saturday the 29th, to be specific. It will take place at the 331 club in NE Minneapolis, and LOUDRAY will open. All of your favorites will be there, Jake Hyer on Madolin and Fiddle, Justin Bruhn on Bass, Jackson Buxton on Guitar, and Hatpan on Banjar! The show is free, so tell your friends and come watch the Twin Cities' most dynamic bluegrass band whip it out again! It all gets going around 10, so get there early and get a good seat.

Hope you are all well,
LOUDRAY
-jason





Sep 16 2007 10:04 AM

666 views?
Anthony Newes





Sep 4 2007 2:58 PM

Oh Mercy me. I hear wonderful things about you all. Thanks for finding me.
LOUDRAY





Aug 30 2007 10:12 AM

Here it is again Jason!

Take this day OFF!!

ANNOUNCING
THE FIRST EVER
HAMLINE AVENUE
FOLK FEST
Sunday September 30th
FEATURING

LOUDRAY
Pop Wagner
The Roe Family Singers
Mother Banjo
Sans Souci Quartet
Eliza Blue
Nikki Matteson and her Ruemates
Big Game
Pet Pears
Smokestack & his Foothill Fury
“Sneaky” Pete Bauer
&
Other guests

The show is at J&S Bean Factory on Hamline & Thomas in St. Paul’s lovely Midway! The address is 1342 Thomas Ave. It all starts at 1pm and goes until 10pm. It will feature food from ZANDER CAFÉ. Admission is still to be determined, but will be under $10. Children under 12 free, if accompanied by an adult.

There is a field of apples fermenting
Bees and flies distracted from the sky
Summer into Autumn in an afternoon
LOUDRAY will meet you there.
The Copperheads





Aug 12 2007 1:04 PM

Thanks much for the request. Hope you'll include August 16th among your un-offical holy days.
-Ray
Arise Bookstore





Aug 10 2007 12:17 PM

Gabe Barnett





Aug 5 2007 1:56 PM

Thanks for the add, eh.
I dig what you do...
-g