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August 10, 2018 Pray Like You Are Going to Die I even tried the recommended exercise: pray as if you're going to die before the end of the prayer. I couldn't get myself to believe it. Yet I know from experience that such books are precisely the…

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March 4, 2022 Analog Church After all, digital spaces like webinars, podcasts, YouTube worship services, Zoom prayer meetings—even this email newsletter—have been lifelines for so many. And for that, we can be grateful. So is…

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August 20, 2021 Going About Our Day When the World Is On Fire Following his example, we each have work the Father gives us to do. And following his example, that work is best done when we withdraw often for prayer.

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May 4, 2018 God as my glasses Frank Laubach's practice of using God as his glasses to see people through God's love, combined with Richard Foster's insights on prayer as a living relationship, offers a transformative approach to…

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February 17, 2023 Discovering Lilias Trotter This doesn’t mean we abandon the gifts God gives us. Miriam Rockness noted that Lilias didn’t throw art away to immediately become a foreign missionary. After Ruskin’s offer, she remained in England…

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September 30, 2022 The Beauty, Wisdom, and Power of Restraint And some of the most culturally transformative movements have been led by those, like Martin Luther King, Jr., who modeled costly restraint from anger and violence.c

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June 10, 2022 Power Behind some of our hesitation, perhaps, is the idea that walking in the power of God must be dramatic or abrasive. But true power, healthy power, godly power is humble and often comes in an…

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June 18, 2021 How Beautiful It Is When… The Ministry Team has modeled to me healthy ecumenism. Its members have shown me how to listen to other perspectives, how to come together even if there are secondary matters of disagreement, and…

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July 31, 2020 Racism and the Law of Love “Every other week I collect the emails and comments of those who vehemently disagree with my posts about racism and coherently listed why, and on a dedicated day, I unpack them before the Lord in a…

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July 24, 2020 Drawn Not Repelled Jesus himself was a magnet for sinners. What did they see in his actions, hear in his words, feel from his eyes? Mercy. Tenderness. Love. Compassion. Someone who wanted to be with them.

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August 17, 2018 Why Do Ministries Lose Their Founding Vision? How do we maintain the vision laid out by a "founder" (or first pastor, etc) without "the loss of the inward fire of vision to the outward accretions of mission or ministry?"

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June 29, 2018 The Big Picture Study is our focus discipline this month and today's digest has several essays from the With-God Life Bible which we hope aids your study of Scripture. They provide a panoramic view of the Bible that…