How to Live the Bible — Work: Sustaining Life
This is the one-hundred-seventeenth lesson in author and pastor Mel Lawrenz’ How to Live the Bible series. If you know someone or a group who would like to follow along on this journey through...
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The Old Testament Tells All
The Hebrew Scriptures place internal struggles on full display—and teach us a lot about spiritual practice. This is the fifth in a six-part series of essays from a cross...
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White Fragility: All Truth Matters
God can and will reveal His truth in unexpected places. While reading this article it would be important to refer to the first post in this series, which lists DiAngelo’s definitions, including: “Whiteness rests...
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Who Are the Most Generous? Not Who You’d Expect.
The secret to becoming a cheerful giver is to remember whom we are giving to. Where in the US are people the most generous? Based on stereotypes, one might be tempted to think of...
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Blessed by ‘The Blessing’ in the World’s Indigenous Languages
Knowing how other Christians translate Numbers 6 can take us from merely being “#blessed” to being “pierced by words that cause grace.” The more than 100 popular videos of “The Blessing” sung by churches...
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I Preached Where the Worship Leader Sang and Now I Have COVID-19
Some cautions about COVID-19 and church. Where did I Contract COVID-19? But where did I contract COVID-19? I was contacted by my home church—where I periodically preach—that I had been around someone the previous...
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