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Neighboring meets ripple-effect faith. I call it missional neighboring.
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Why I Chose Nevertheless as My 2021 Word of the Year
Sometimes the week after Christmas can feel empty. But as we catch our breath, we find there is grace in the lull to learn again to simply be . . . and to choose what…
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Part 4: How to Unwrap Hope When All Days Feel the Same
Perhaps, as we enter the week of Christmas, you’re feeling a little like the shepherds too—like all the days blend into one another, like all the days are the same.
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Part 3: How the Gift of Emmanuel Unwraps Mission
The gift of God with us is that it’s an always-offered gift. God is not Emmanuel just one time of the year.
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Part 2: How to Live Full of Hope When the Realest Life Feels Empty
Here at the brink of Christmas, I ponder—how to hark, how to unwrap the hope He gives, inhale His very presence and let the heart drink the fragrance of God-near?
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Part 1: How to Unwrap the Gift of Hope at Christmastime
Could last month’s immersion in gratitude be preparing me for this? Thanks for even the hard so I can see through the hard to unwrap the true gift?
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How Gratitude Can Make You a Better Neighbor
This week we follow the ripple begun by practicing gratitude out even further to see how it touches our neighborhoods. Because gratitude, it doesn’t touch just one life, it touches many.