For When You Don’t Know What Else to Do
There are times when I’m just at a loss. When there’s stuff going on that I can’t even begin to know how to handle, when I think “Surely not…” only to find that surely, yes. When I feel powerless yet...
View ArticleCreation, Tabernacle, and New Creation
“At this small, lonely place in the midst of the chaos of the wilderness, a new creation comes into being. In the midst of disorder, there is order. The tabernacle is the world order as God intended...
View ArticleWord.
I wrote a new prayer guide for our church last week and one of the steps in it requires the person praying to read the Word, out-loud, as prayer. I prayed this guideline several times with our people...
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Attacked Christians in India fear returning home
After Hindu nationalists in Maharashtra state attacked Christians two weeks ago because they refused to honor a tribal deity – violence that led many to flee their homes – the extremists yesterday...
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Think Respectable Thoughts, or Pay the Consequences
For Pastor Louie Giglio, a frequent visitor to the Obama White House in 2012, an invitation to pray the Inaugural benediction meant a spotlight on his efforts to end global human trafficking, an issue...
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Word from Scotland: Did Joseph know his tomb would only be required for 3 days?
We are reading of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in John Chapter 19. Matthew, Mark, and Luke give us other aspects of the crucifixion, where even the criminals say their piece and Jesus replies. ...
View ArticlePerfect Plans
We’re counting down to April 26 & 27 when our (in) real life conference kicks off! And these are a few of our favorite posts from women who participated in last year’s [...]
View ArticleThe Year I Didn’t Go To Hilton Head
We’re counting down to April 26 & 27 when our (in) real life conference kicks off! In the meantime, this month we’re delighted to be featuring a few of our favorite posts [...]
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Stories of grace and light: Don’t no. 2 (My 3 don’ts and 1 be)
Don’t no. 2 So we move to the second don’t — the principle I apply in this journey called ‘life’ when facing a storm. It is never easy, but I have these “three don’ts and one be” that help me paddle...
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Beijing smog puts China’s anti-pollution policies under scrutiny
The Chinese government has announced several emergency steps to combat the worsening air pollution in the capital. ...
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Hope in Mali rises with international military intervention
French troops have launched a military operation in Mali, aiming at stopping the advance of Islamists from their bases in the north to the South. ...
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How to Develop More Discipline
"If you’re like me, you struggle with discipline. You have great intentions, but just as you get a little momentum, something derails you. Over the years, I have found that I can become disciplined in...
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Don’t Hide Special Needs Children From the World
Erick is a very special child who enjoys participating in every activity at the San Pablo Apostol Student Center. There are some things he can do and others that are are more complicated for him, but...
View ArticleStunning words from Wendell Berry
Here: http://www.abpnews.com/culture/social-issues/item/8130-wendell-berry-expounds-on-gay-marriage#.UPSBUKXmsXc Quotable: “If I were one of a homosexual couple -- the same as I am one of a...
View ArticleSilence Wounds, Silence Heals
It was there all along. Troubling me. It hurt me and aroused my sympathy for that boy, that young man, the Reb’s firstborn son being groomed to replace, one day, his father as head of a Hasidic...
View ArticleMatthew 25:24-25 – Failing For Fear
Daily Devotional Bible Verse He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no...
View ArticleWorth a Look 1.15.13
Kindle Deal of the Day: Word versus Deed: Resetting the Scales to a Biblical Balance by Duane Litfin. $3.99. An elder statesmen in the church, Litfin’s training in communication theory and in detailed...
View ArticleCourageous words from Steve Chalke
The same day Kentucky sage Wendell Berry went public with a strongly worded statement about gay people and the Christian faith, my friend Steve Chalke went public with a similar statement in the UK. It...
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Only a Father – Thought for the day
We are a creation only a Father could love. Although we have broken every commandment and every promise, He still lovingly accepts our return (Bishop Angaelos, Coptic Orthodox Church). Filed under: God...
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The signs of the times – 27
“I shall send My two witnesses to prophesy for those twelve hundred and sixty days, wearing sackcloth. These are the two olive trees and the two lamps that stand before the Lord of the world. Fire can...
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