Tag Archives: Christianity

Chase Livingston: Social Justice and the Lord’s Prayer…

…Or How an Unemployed, Fat Guy Thought It’d be a Good Idea to Bike Cross-Country for Kenya
Joe’s right. Words are not enough.
Once, long ago, words bore the power to inspire change. Now, inspiration is a category of greeting cards and change is a campaign mantra.
We have a need to feel empathy and we fulfill that...

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Amy Nicholson: More than a Tree-Hugger…

A note from Joe: I’ve known Amy Nicholson since our first class together at NOBTS in January 2005. She’s one of my most trusted friends, and I was thrilled when she was appointed as a missionary in Vienna, Austria. As part of a series of guest posts my friends are writing for Words Are Not...

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The Reproducing Churches Network in Pensacola…

Today Justin Woulard and I went to Pensacola to meet with a couple church planters in the Reproducing Churches Network. In late January I drove over to New Orleans to a gathering of the RCN guys, including Jason Dukes and Billy Mitchell. That same day they were in New Orleans, Jason and Billy also spent...

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A Stable Conversion…

“Perhaps the contrast between spiritual and human reality can be made most clear in the following observation: within the spiritual community there is never, nor in any way, any “immediate” of one to another, whereas human community expresses a profound, elemental, human desire for community, for immediate contact with other human souls, just as in...

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On the Importance of Character…

Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing – so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.
[E. Stanley Jones, Source Currently Unknown]

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