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April 4, 2019
The Bible and gender
Are the differences between men and women facts or fictions? My two-year-old daughter offers me a barrette to put in my hair. I politely decline. “Barrettes are for girls,” I say. “Boys and daddies don’t wear barrettes.” Am I simply making this up, or am I reflecting some essential distinction between males and females? Lorna […]
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April 3, 2019
Don’t waste your retirement
Do you realize that the largest generation with the greatest amount of resources in the history of the United States is now in retirement: the baby boomers. And many of them are wasting their best years, living for themselves. Is that you? Don’t waste your retirement. On the other hand, the members of the next […]
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April 2, 2019
Who is the devil and how does he work?
The Bible clearly teaches two things about evil: You have a powerful enemy, and he has a name. For years some people have talked about God in general terms. He’s their Higher Power, the Force, or the Man Upstairs. The truth is, good has a name, and His name is God. Evil also has a […]
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April 1, 2019
Why I Believe
The millions of changed lives in the last two thousand years argue, experientially, that Jesus is alive, and is who He says He is. There is something very powerful about a personal testimony. Even in Jesus’ day we hear of a man born blind who was given his sight by Jesus (John 9). The religious […]
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March 30, 2019
What do you do when evil strikes you?
We all know that both good and evil exist in our world. We are taught from early childhood that some things are bad, and some are good. We are taught as children that we need to develop an ability to distinguish between good and evil. As we grow up, we are cautioned to be alert […]
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March 29, 2019
A short history of Christian Hospitality
For many parts of the western church, hospitality got lost in the eighteenth century. People were having trouble finding it for several centuries before then, but it disappeared as a significant moral practice in the 1700s. Strangers were still cared for, but responses to their needs were less frequently called hospitality. People worried about equality […]
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March 28, 2019
Clarify the Mission
Next, we clarify our mission. We remind one another that we are commanded by Jesus to make disciples of all people groups. So we ask: “What people and place do we believe God is collectively sending us to this year? Who do we hope to see become followers of Jesus Christ?” Our missional community has […]
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March 27, 2019
Attitude is everything
A little boy strutting through the backyard, baseball cap in place, toting ball and bat, was overheard talking to himself. “I’m the greatest hitter in the world.” Then he tossed the ball into the air, swung at it and missed. “Strike one!” Undaunted he picked up the ball, threw it into the air and said […]
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March 26, 2019
Missional Communities
Once we’ve clarified our mission, we walk through each of the identities, asking how we live in light of our identities in the everyday stuff of life. We generally spend at least one of our weekly meetings talking through each identity and how the gospel of Jesus informs who we are and how we should […]
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March 25, 2019
The most important thing we do
Joanne Shetler spent twenty years doing Bible translation among the Balangao tribesmen in the Philippine mountains. It was difficult work, and when Shetler returned to the United States for her first sabbatical, she was deeply discouraged: “I was frustrated. When I came home on my first furlough, after five solid years, only two people had […]
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