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How to Exchange the Seed of Ambition for Kingdom Mission (Guest Post-Joanna Eccles)
A seed of ambition recently tried to sprout into a weed that would choke out my witness. I helped my colleague organize my office’s strategic planning conference. During the conference, the big boss kept acknowledging two other coworkers for their efforts. I wasn’t...
The Day Eternity Entered the World
I want to be your encourager today. The one who reminds you that Christmas is the day Eternity entered the world. That moment when the Holy One stepped away from God's glory to lay shivering in the midst of the squalor and stench of man's inhospitable world. For...
Living Prayers
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed in death, the heart that that felt them may have ceased to beat, but the prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them. Prayers outlive the lives of those who...
Rushing River
Perched atop a weather worn balcony, my gaze sweeps the views afforded by the Arkansas River valley. Surrounded on every side by mountains, the prairie splays wide between--a broad swath of sun kissed grasses and gray-green sagebrush. Barbed wire fences zig zag...
Five Things ParentingTaught Me About Real Love-Day 1
In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh I thought I understood love--it's complexity, depth, and...
Live Like You Believe
Each one of these people of faith died not yet having in hand what was promised, but still believing. How did they do it? They saw it way off in the distance, waved their greeting, and accepted the fact that they were transients in this world. People who live this way...
One in Six
He meant well. They shouldn't spend much time together. She has a disorder--bipolar. I winced when I heard the words because he didn't know about us. We understand the stigma...the struggle...the pain swelling on the inside--but still unseen....
