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March 22, 2020
Fearless about what is next
If only we could order life the way we order gourmet coffee. Wouldn’t you love to mix and match the ingredients of your future? “Give me a tall, extra-hot cup of adventure, cut the dangers, with two shots of good health.” “A decaf brew of longevity, please, with a sprinkle of fertility. Go heavy on […]
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March 21, 2020
A church like this could spread like an unstoppable virus
A Vision Too Good to Be True Being brought up in “Christian” Germany with churches everywhere, I always felt that there must be something exciting about the community that Jesus started in the New Testament —but somehow I could never discover what that was. Together with many friends and colleagues, I dreamed of a community that would […]
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The Secret of Happiness
THERE COMES a time in our lives when good-natured, well-meant encouragement like “Hang in there, pal” and “Cheer up, friend” fail to hoist us out of the doldrums. Because our needs are deeper than psychological, such suggestions only seem to make keener our feeling of helplessness. The truth is: Regardless of our cleverness, our achievements, […]
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March 20, 2020
It’s time to start something new!
One day in 1978, I took a break from farm work and youth ministry duties in order to pray for a few hours I was startled when I heard the Lord speak to me through His still, small voice. “Are you willing to be involved in the underground church?” He asked. I was shocked. The […]
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Fear of coming winter
A Monopoly champion sits in your office. The Michael Phelps of the game board. The Pelé of the Boardwalk. He spends all day every day slam-dunking the competition, collecting houses, Park Places, and make-believe money the way Solomon collected wives. He never goes to jail, always passes Go, and has permanent addresses on Illinois and […]
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March 19, 2020
New Wineskins
We began to understand the answer to our dilemma when a church leader shared with us the following verses from Scripture. Although these Scriptures may have other applications, we sensed the Holy Spirit was using them to teach us about new church structures. No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, […]
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For sale, baby shoes, never worn.
Ernest Hemingway made a bet. I imagine he made a number of them, but this one was with a group of authors over lunch, and it has since become an anecdote. The guys bet him ten dollars he couldn’t come up with a short story only six words long. Hemingway took that bet, pulled out […]
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March 18, 2020
5 things you might not know about fear
5 Things You Might Not Know About Fear Posted by Salem Baptist Church on Wednesday, March 18, 2020
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The culture of fear
Why, as crime rates plunged throughout the 1990s, did two-thirds of Americans believe they were soaring? How did it come about that by mid-decade 62 percent of us described ourselves as “truly desperate” about crime—almost twice as many as in the late 1980s, when crime rates were higher? Why, on a survey in 1997, when […]
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