Ken Wytsma

Kilns Bookstore

If you live in Bend, remember to swing by the Kilns Bookstore this Christmas season to pick up some gifts or stocking stuffers.  What better way to spend holiday money than spending and doing good at the same time? If you’re outside of Central Oregon, make sure to check back soon to the Kilns website

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Psalm 34

I’ve read Psalm 34 today a few times through. Been loving it and the theology in it. Check it out – Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him. 9 Fear the LORD, you his holy people, for those who fear him lack nothing. 10 The

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The Laviks

No – they’re not Photoshopped in. Kip just simply highlighted the obvious humor in this picture from the Antioch Staff Christmas party – Justin Lavik wearing the adult pajamas and Trish Lavik wearing the snowman kit – both casualties of the Christmas “game” and the White Elephant Exchange cooked up by Caitlin. I don’t know,

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Gratitude

I’ve been thinking a lot about gratitude lately. I think gratitude – thankfulness, appreciation, value – has a very underrated foundational role in virtue and vice. Legalism, the kind of self-righteous Christianity that is all about control, guilt, power, pride and perfection, really has beneath it a sick and hollowed out sense of gratitude.  Grace

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Baltimore

I just returned from a quick trip to Baltimore with the rest of the World Relief BEND office. Meetings, creativity, problem solving, productivity and… duck pin bowling! It really struck me while I was out there what an amazing group of people work for World Relief.  Nobody does this for a paycheck – they all,

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