Guest Post by Jonathan Hankins What does hope look like? A paid power bill? A hug from a stranger? A free ride? An unsolicited smile? Hope is a powerful force. Sometimes a little hope is all you need to get through another day. I have the privilege of working among members of our community who […]
I e-mailed in the second book to Thomas Nelson Publishers today. It was fun, this time around, to focus on discipleship and the pursuit of God from a contemporary perspective. Stay tuned–this book will be out in January 2015!
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Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is a writer, speaker, native of North Carolina, and a graduate of Eastern University and Duke Divinity School. In 2003, Jonathan and his wife Leah founded the Rutba House, a house of hospitality where the formerly homeless are welcomed into a community that eats, prays, and shares life together. Jonathan directs the School
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My friend from back in my Clemson University days, Natalee Whitesell , set out on an exciting and sometimes frightening discovery of her true identity over the last few years. Her journey has led to a deep hope that we can all learn from and her book, Dismantling Taboo, tells the story of how she found that
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Guest Post by Peter Goodwin Heltzel Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s classic Discipleship continues to inspire my own walk of Christian discipleship. I am struck by Bonhoeffer’s total surrender to God and commitment to the Confessing Church movement, keeping the flames of prophetic Christianity alive in Nazi Germany. The Protestant Reformers Martin Luther and John Calvin forged a theology of
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You can only do so much. It is a phrase I’ve been saying to others recently and one many have been reciting to me. You can only do so much. In modern life, we carry a full load—instead of three or four categories in life, it’s fifteen or sixteen. Under normal circumstances, when one slice
Mae Elise Cannon serves as the Senior Director of Advocacy & Outreach – Middle East for World Vision USA. She is a minister, writer, and academic who cares deeply about God’s heart for the poor and the oppressed. She is the author of Social Justice Handbook: Small Steps for a Better World and Just Spirituality: How
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Guest Post by Stephan Bauman Before the hallelujah chorus The Prince of Peace The Wonderful Counselor; Before the government falls upon His shoulders; Before the Child was born unto Us A peasant girl fell to her knees And sang with abandoned praise: “My soul glorifies My spirit rejoices For You look down upon My lowly
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Making memories is a big deal for me as a parent. Everyone has memories from childhood—a broken arm, being bullied at school, going on a family vacation, getting that present that you’d prayed and prayed for, riding a chair lift with your dad and for the first time seeing the beauty of the mountains—somehow we
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In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same. Albert Einstein
