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Growth, Reflection, Uncategorized
Reassembled
Finding the church in unlikely places. A group of enterprising students once disassembled their professor’s car, reassembling it in the lobby of the college president’s office. To ensure this moment […]
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Growth, Reflection, Uncategorized
Meaning
Do you have a deep enough “why?” Some of life’s greatest surprises are when joy shines unexpectedly into a dark moment. The Apostle Paul experienced this during his first imprisonment, […]
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Renewal
Tilling the soil Imagine a college student, mid-semester, giving an update to her mentor: “I’ve poured out my heart for God – I help at the soup kitchen, pick up […]
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Happy Work
Are you isolated in your work? Did you know that one of our newest holidays on Oct 18th, is “national bestie at work day”? I love it, because we spend […]
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Don’t to Let
Let there be light, oceans, land. Many people think God’s favorite word is “DON’T” – ‘don’t do this, don’t do that.’ But did you know that long before God said […]
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Broken to Cracked
What does it mean to be the sort of cracked that lets the light in? Someone once said about the poet William Blake, “I believe that man is cracked” and […]
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Sign-up Season
What is fueling your commitments? Fall-time is “sign-up season” – and in this community, options abound for joining clubs and activities, engaging in sports and community service. Ecclesiastes chapters 1-2 […]
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Good Timing
Do you embrace what is good in the present? Remember the flux capacitor, or the Star Trek wormholes, or the wardrobe to Narnia? These vehicles of time travel left us […]
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Silence to Reverence
In silence, we gather our soul. in the 1960s, Americans were transfixed as television broadcasts showed astronauts venturing into the beauty and silence of outer space. One viewer wrote to NASA, […]
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Water to Glaciers
How do you perceive those around you? What will you see in the people around you today? A co-worker, the store clerk, your spouse? Scientists say a person is ¾ […]