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Radical Love In Radical Community

In a 2020 survey by the Pew Research Center, respondents who think Christianity’s influence is declining were asked to assess whether each of a variety of factors has been a major cause, minor...
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Cross My Heart

When I was a child, we would clasp each other’s pinky fingers together and then yank them away to guarantee we would do what we had said.
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The Highest Form Of Love

If you’ve attended a wedding before, odds are you’ve heard the famous love passage from 1 Corinthians 13. It starts like this, “Love is patient, love is kind…” and then goes on for several...
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Coming Together

Every teacher knows May brings challenges to the classroom with warmer temperatures and the promise of summer drawing near. My students’ end-of-year behavior started early this year, and I knew our...
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Take The Pizza Test

It has been almost 30 years, and I just found out that my wife doesn’t like mushrooms, especially on pizza. I also realized that day that I hadn’t ordered mushrooms on pizza for about three...
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He Will Do It Again

We all have pivotal moments in our lives—moments when the trajectory of our journey shifted. I’m talking about our rock-bottom moments and our mountaintop victories.
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Expect God

In 1991, the Soviet Union officially dissolved. After almost 70 years of absolute power and devotion to atheism, who would ever have imagined that Russian leaders would request that anyone would equip...
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The Next Step

I grew up backpacking in the mountains of Southern Colorado with my family. It was our version of a vacation that we would do every year around the Fourth of July week.