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Today, You Will Be With Me In Paradise &Raquo; File 42

Today, You Will be With Me In Paradise

“And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.” [1] (Luke 23: 42, 43). Crucifixion is perhaps the most demeaning and agonizing form of execution ever concocted, yet Jesus showed no defiance and demonstrated no […]

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The Account Of Unbelieving Thomas &Raquo; File 20

The Account of Unbelieving Thomas

24 Thomas, the one called Didymus, one of the Twelve, wasn’t with the disciples when Jesus came. 25 The other disciples told him, “We’ve seen the Lord!” But he replied, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands, put my finger in the wounds left by the nails, and put my hand into his […]

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Reaching Rural America With The Gospel &Raquo; File 45

Reaching Rural America with the Gospel

When I talked to a few frustrated rural pastors, at the heart of their frustration was the sense that because there was not a large influx of people coming into their community, there were not many ministries to do. What is needed is an attitude adjustment. Sometimes out of our most desperate situations comes the […]

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Millennials Are Seeking A Community-Minded Church &Raquo; File 22

Millennials Are Seeking a Community-Minded Church

In his 1983 acceptance speech for the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, [Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn] recalled the words he heard as a child when his elders sought to explain the ruinous upheavals in Russia: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.” He added, “If I were called upon to identify briefly the […]

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Six Simple Steps To Overcome Discouragement &Raquo; File 47

Six Simple Steps to Overcome Discouragement

Former heavyweight boxer James (Quick) Tillis is a cowboy from Oklahoma who fought out of Chicago in the early 1980s. He still remembers his first day in the Windy City after his arrival from Tulsa. “I got off the bus with two cardboard suitcases under my arms in downtown Chicago and stopped in front of […]

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Who Are You Missing On Your Emmaus Road Journey? &Raquo; File 25

Who are You Missing on Your Emmaus Road Journey?

“Can’t see your nose in front of your face “ Idiom Meaning – Being oblivious to something obvious, in clear view. On the Road to Emmaus Jesus had His faithful disciples not recognize him. It is easy to focus on the disciples short-comings. To see the disciples as men with a weak faith or just […]

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What Kind Of Church Will We Be? &Raquo; File 50

What Kind Of Church Will We Be?

This story is familiar. In 1972, and after 308 years, the First Church of Newton, Mass., called it quits. It gave its assets to a museum, sold its building to a Greek Evangelical Church, and disbanded. Started in 1664, the church rose to a high of 1,200 members in 1952 but dropped to 325 in […]

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Father Forgive Them &Raquo; File 28

Father Forgive Them

Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.[1] Luke 24:34 Near the end of Irving Stone’s powerful novel, Love Is Eternal, about Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln, there is a moving conversation between Mrs. Lincoln and the President’s bodyguard, Parker, who had been summoned to Mrs. Lincoln’s room. “Why were you not at […]

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Mother'S Hold A Special Place In The Family &Raquo; File 30

Mother’s Hold A Special Place in the Family

There’s an old saying, “God couldn’t be everywhere at once, so he made moms.” That statement has horrible theology in it. But it attempts to convey the importance motherhood plays in our lives. Mothers hold a special place and role that no one else can fill. This post is about the importance of motherhood. The […]

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Urban Ministry Is Complicated &Raquo; File 33

Urban Ministry is Complicated

Urban Ministry is messy. It involves loving all people. Some come into our stream of consciousness with messy and broken lives. Because of the struggles their lives have gone through that makes our ministry with them will look messy. Our need to include others makes our partnerships with community leaders and congregations outside the comfort […]

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