The Disciplemaker Team On a clear winter day a few years ago, I went with my friend Claire to visit a small chapel near the western edge of the walls that centuries ago protected the city of Constantinople. In the fourth century, the …
Starbucks provides a great example of using language to invite people into a new way of thinking. When I’m in my local (non-Starbucks) coffee store, I often ask for a “grande.” To which the barista replies, “You mean a medium?” …
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The Gospel Americana has created many Christians—passive, accommodating Christians who possess a sense of entitlement. They are trained consumers with a strong sense of individualism that overpowers the common good. A vocal minority are rigid and focus more on dogma …
You have charged us to keep your commandments carefully. Oh, that my actions would consistently reflect your decrees! Psalm 119:4-5 In front of a gas station in Johannesburg, South Africa, sits a chalkboard that offers an insightful daily quote to …
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We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin. For when we died with Christ we were set free from the …
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Jesus knows you, loves you, and longs for you to ask sacred questions. God could, had He pleased, have been incarnate in a man of iron nerves, the Stoic sort who lets no sigh escape Him. Of His great humility He …
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(The featured image above is Connally with a former roommate, Maria.) by Connally Gilliam, co-author of And Yet, Undaunted: Embraced by the Goodness of God in the Chaos of Life, with Paula Rinehart It was a profound gift that God dropped …
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Praying for you need … today. Few people in modern times have demonstrated the power of petitionary prayer more powerfully and consistently than the nineteenth-century philanthropist and pastor George Müller, who started 117 schools, cared for 10,024 orphans, educated 120,000 …
Most of us are familiar with the account of Jesus and the young man commonly known as the rich young ruler (Mark 10:17-25). This young man approached Jesus, asking him what was necessary for him to obtain eternal life. In …
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by Paula Rinehart, co-author with Connally Gilliam of And Yet, Undaunted: Embraced by the Goodness of God in the Chaos of Life. We are living in an age of deconstruction, and it’s affecting faith. Every ideal is picked apart. George Washington has …