The Spirit and preparation
As we prepare to join God’s great mission, we need the Holy Spirit....
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As we prepare to join God’s great mission, we need the Holy Spirit....
Keep ReadingGod’s mission will prove impossible without the Spirit’s involvement....
Keep ReadingTwo thousand years ago Jesus gave these unsophisticated, uneducated, unspectacular people a mission: to be his witnesses even to the ends of the earth. ...
Keep ReadingA long reading from the Gospel of Luke and a few reflection questions...
Keep ReadingGod always shows up in our lives at just the right time....
Keep ReadingThe first Christmas happened inside of a larger story. This year’s does, too....
Keep ReadingEvery inconvenience is an opportunity. ...
Keep ReadingGod wants our Father-Child relationship with him to transform us and to bless our families....
Keep ReadingWas this really the optimal time for Jesus to come?...
Keep ReadingJesus joined our family and took his own special place: the firstborn son, the Savior, the Lord. God with us....
Keep ReadingWhen we become Christians, we join a big, wild, diverse, messy family....
Keep ReadingWhen God’s people celebrate, those who have little always are blessed....
Keep ReadingWe don’t have enough joy on our own to make it through life’s failures and disappointments and trials....
Keep ReadingWatch small pockets of celebration break out all over the place....
Keep ReadingAs followers of Jesus, we always retain in our hearts a measure of joy, even in the midst of the hardest seasons....
Keep ReadingOur God knows how to party and have fun and he invites us into that in this season....
Keep ReadingThe indescribable gift of Jesus' life, love and presence transforms us. His generosity makes us generous if we’ll let him do his work in us....
Keep ReadingAs we encounter God's generosity, he transforms our hearts and we become the sort of people who can give generously to those who need it....
Keep ReadingCheerful giving is a litmus-test for genuine, authentic faith....
Keep ReadingSeeing God’s generosity in action changes the way we think about generosity. ...
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