Guest Post by Kent Annan The rain roars down. That season has arrived. The rain might as well be tears, drenching hundreds of thousands of people in tents and under tarps [after the earthquake here in Haiti]. I’m back staying with the Woshdlo family [I used to live with] as I check on the rebuilding […]
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Photo Credit: Gilberto Agostinho, Creative Commons Guest Post by Luke Suciu As a youth pastor I frequently get asked by parents, “What are some issues the students are dealing with in their faith?” and while I am convinced that the removal of obstacles does not equal the presence of faith, I believe the question is a
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Guest Post by Jon Huckins I recently looked out my front door and saw a woman sitting on the stairs of my patio. She was out of breath, sweaty and had a large basket next to her full of cans and plastic bottles to be recycled. She looked desperately in need of some rest and
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Guest Post by Casey Parnell Years ago I went to Rome with some of my greatest friends in the world. Rome is an incredible place and, in case you happen upon this city, I want to make sure you plan for multiple days there. We were there for only one spectacular day and it wasn’t
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Guest Post by Stephan Bauman One of the reasons so many people give up on Congo is because its problems are chronic. The following note from Charles Franzen poignantly depicts the urgency of the situation against the backdrop of everyday life — moms and dads and sisters and brothers, just like you and me, working and
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Guest Post by Rick McKinley When Imago Dei first got off the ground, I met a man named David Nicholas who had started a church in Boca Raton, Florida called Spanish River Community Church. David had this vision for planting churches because he loved seeing people come to Christ. They had committed 10% of their budget to
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Photo Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Creative Commons Guest Post by Ed Underwood [This post is Part 5 of a 5 Part series, Sustaining Friendships] Years ago, before I started thinking about the difference between a sustaining relationship and mere acquaintances, a man I thought was my friend walked out of my life. He was
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Guest Post by Ben Larson City Dionysus Imagine an event so important, so universal that everyone in your city took a week off from work to attend. Everyone you know is either sitting in the stands with you, working backstage behind the scenes, or will be on the stage performing. The City Dionysus was a
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Photo Credit: Abhi Sharma, Creative Commons Guest Post by Ed Underwood [This post is Part 4 of a 5 Part series, Sustaining Friendships] It was a Monday morning and I wanted to quit. After the adreneline overload of a Sunday, I’m ready to quit just about every Monday. But this one was different. I was on
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Photo Credit: Ellen Davis, Creative Commons Guest Post by Justin Kron My favorite holiday is Passover, and no other holiday has shaped me, or continues to do so, more than this one. Passover first started molding me like a gefilte fish patty (Google it) while sitting around the dining room table in my grandparents home
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