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August 19, 2020
How small groups change lives — The Steve Gladen Story
Let me tell you some of my background to give some insight into why I have a passion for evangelism. I was not born into a family of believers. We were Catholic by name, but we didn’t know Christ; we attended Mass purely out of duty. Ours was a moral home, but we didn’t have […]
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August 18, 2020
August 17, 2020
The high cost of loneliness
Being in meaningful relationships is life-giving in the most literal sense. One of the most thorough research projects on relationships is called the Alameda County Study. Headed by a Harvard social scientist, it tracked the lives of 7,000 people over nine years. Researchers found that the most isolated people were three times more likely to […]
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August 16, 2020
August 15, 2020
Love One Another
HER NAME WAS PANDY. She had lost a good deal of her hair, one of her arms was missing, and, generally speaking, she’d had the stuffing knocked out of her. She was my sister Barbie’s favorite doll. She hadn’t always looked like this. She had been a personally selected Christmas gift by a cherished aunt […]
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August 14, 2020
August 13, 2020
The people-shaped vacuum
In the story of the Creation in the book of Genesis, a little refrain keeps recurring: “And God said…and it was so…and God saw that it was good.” The writer is emphasizing that everything that exists is the effortless activity of an unimaginably powerful God, and all of it is unspeakably delightful: This is the […]
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August 12, 2020
August 11, 2020
What has made the greatest impact on your spiritual growth?
What has made the greatest impact on your spiritual growth? If you’re like me, the answer isn’t a sermon, a lesson, or even a book; the answer is a person who was willing to invest time in you. Ron Swiger was one of the first guys who intentionally poured into my life. As I mentioned […]
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August 10, 2020
Gospel Mission
“The criteria on which a church should measure its success is not how many new names are added to the roll nor how much the budget is increased, but rather how many Christians are actively winning souls and training them to win the multitudes.” —Robert Coleman, The Master Plan of Evangelism “Our biggest need right […]
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