This Sunday we’ll be singing one of my favorite songs, How Deep the Father’s Love for Us. A man named Stuart Townend wrote it in 1995. Here’s what he had to say about how he came to write it: I’d been meditating on the cross, and in particular what it cost the Father to give up […]
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It has been difficult to watch the news lately. It’s difficult to see pictures of the people killed or injured in the Boston Marathon bombing and the Texas explosion. How are we to respond to all of this? It makes me think of Job’s response in Job 1. Then Job arose and tore his robe
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22This is the reason why I have so often been hindered from coming to you. 23But now, since I no longer have any room for work in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to come to you, 24I hope to see you in passing as I go to Spain, and to
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By Dawn Rutan I’ve been listening to a Bible study series called “Rebuilding Your Broken World” by Chip Ingram based on James 1. I don’t know about anyone else, but verses 2-4 aren’t exactly the encouraging word I want to hear most of the time: “Count in all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials
I’m not sure if I’m legally allowed to do this, but I wanted to share a couple of pages from Total Church with my youth ministry friends. If I get arrested for copyright infringement, please bail me out. The authors give the following contrasting glimpses at different ways of discipling young people: “Brian dropped into
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14I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another. 15But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by God 16to be a minister of Christ Jesus
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