Jonathan Parnell is the lead pastor of Cities Church in St. Paul, a church he and his team planted in 2015. He is the Send Network’s City Missionary in the Twin Cities, where he also serves as a church-planting trainer. He is the author of Mercy for Today: A Daily Prayer from Psalm 51 (2020) and Never Settle for Normal: The Proven Path to Significance and Happiness (2017), and he has written hundreds of articles at desiringGod.org. He and his wife, Melissa, live in the Twin Cities with their eight children.