The Healing Power Of Honoring Others by Elizabeth Glass Turner

Recently I read a moving account of one German woman’s actions and the impact that they had. A 92-year-old man living in New Jersey received a three-page letter from her in which she apologized for wrongs long past. Reading it, he wept.  As the article recounts about the letter writer, “Doris Schott-Neuse…told him how her grandfather had acquired Hirschmann’s family home under the Nazis, expressing her shame

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When You Don’t Have The Words by Andy Stoddard

Have you ever felt like there was something that you needed to say for Jesus, but you didn’t have the words?  You didn’t know what you should say or how you should say it?  I’ve been there.  I think we’ve all been there. At times, we talk ourselves out of witnessing to someone or saying something to someone, because of fear within us about what

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If You Can’t Say Nothin’ Good by Andy Stoddard

Sometimes when we read scripture we wonder, “what can this passage be saying to me in this moment?  How can I understand it?  What may God want me to do with this truth at this time in my life?”  Sometimes it can be hard to understand, hard to deal with.  And then there are other passages that are so simple they leap off the

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Find Your Wings by Carrie Carter

I didn’t cry when our boys went to kindergarten.  I didn’t cry when our boys went to high school.  I didn’t even cry when our oldest graduated from high school.  Maybe that’s why the flood of emotion that washed over me a couple days before we took our oldest to college completely caught me off guard. Even now, as we’re

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The Nature Of God When The Sun Goes Out And The Rain Comes Down by Elizabeth Glass Turner

Eerie.   Unnatural.  Awe-inspiring.  Within a short span, we went from sharing photos of uncanny eclipse shadows to videos of hungry floodwaters rising.  America stood still while time turned in on itself and twilight became midday, calling out confused crickets while the sun went out and summer heat cooled. We haven’t found a way to control the moon. It’s not customizable. There’s

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Hate: Confusing Holiness With Hierarchy by Carolyn Moore

Let’s talk about hate.  In the first few verses of the Bible, we meet our God in his Trinitarian wholeness. The Father creates, the Son speaks, the Spirit hovers. This Trinitarian God partners within himself in the work of creation. You can sense the single-mindedness — the energy flowing within himself creating goodness. There is no sense of hierarchy here. In fact, a hierarchy

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