Guest Post by John Huckins The world is swirling with issues. Picking up my phone and opening my news app each morning is being met with more and more dread each day. When something hits the news, it is fascinating to watch people jump onto social media and begin “yelling” out their answers for how […]
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Guest Post by Andrea Lucado I’m in a women’s class at my church on Thursday mornings. We’re studying the book Waking Up Grey, which is all about waking up your creativity. As I sat in class last week, I looked around and noticed several women crying. They were just sitting there, letting tears run down hardly
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Guest Post by Andrea Lucado Brene Brown, much like Taylor Swift, really speaks to my soul. I talk about her here a lot, and a friend recently introduced me to a fabulous talk Brown gave at a conference for creatives. You can watch it here. In it, she uses the metaphor of a coliseum-type arena as
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I often get asked, why education? Why a Christian grad school focusing on theology, justice and leadership studies? Why sink time, energy and money into something like that—aren’t there enough schools out there? The answer is that education, and Kilns College specifically, is not just a project that takes time, energy and money; but, rather, it’s
Guest Post by Andrea Lucado I’m the only member of my immediate who has never worked in full-time ministry. My little sister, her husband, my dad and my older sister’s husband have all been in or are in full-time ministry. By default, my older sister and mom have also practically been on the church staff
Pastors, You’re Doing a Great Job Read More »
You can say that I’m “type A.” My mom likes to show me the note my 2nd grade teacher (to be later repeated by my 3rd, 4th and 5th grade teachers) sent home to her gently asking her to remind me that the teacher was the authority in the class, not me. I have always
Learning to Ask for Help Read More »
Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness, by Andrew Murray, is one of my favorite books. After taking a recent spin through it again I thought I’d share a few of Murray’s quotes on humility: “Humility is the consent of the creature to let God be all, the current of itself to his working alone.” “It is
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I love this quote by the late theologian Richard Niebuhr. “Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institution is static, whereas its parent movement has been dynamic; it confines men within its limits, while the movement had liberated them from the bondage of institutions; it looks to the past,
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Guest Post by Ed Underwood This is Part 2 of a 2 Part Series In the last post, I wrote about four truths you need to know before you start disciplemaking–four truths I wish I’d known before I started, myself! In this post, I’d like to share two words that should guide your discipleship activity.
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Guest Post by Ed Underwood Part 1 of a 2 Part Series I’ve learned a lot of lessons in forty years of discipline–Forty years of trying something that didn’t work, finding a solution, and having some success. It’s been the greatest adventure of my life, being privileged by the Lord Jesus to make disciples to
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