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radical thinking, David Platt, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Through Gates of Splendor, Jim Elliott, Elisabeth Elliot, End of the Spear

in Faith· God's love· Spiritual issues

Radical thinking, or not?

One of the most important books I read in 2011 was David Platt‘s Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream. Radical has plenty of concepts to chew over, but the one that is sticking with me today has to do with our willingness to come to Jesus and die. I’ve long wondered what it was like to be…
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VBS, Missouri Synod Lutheran Church, beach boys, Jesus, SonSurf Beach Bash VBS, what's the point of Vacation Bible School, what are the ages for VBS?

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VBS: It’s Not Just for Little Kids

Vacation Bible School (VBS) is a big deal at our church. We’re not a particularly large Missouri Synod Lutheran Church, regularly worshipping about 325. But we go all out the week after Father’s Day each June and open our church to our community for fun, games, Bible teaching, and great food. We’ve averaged 180 children so far this week and today…
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Traveler’s Tales: Saint Peter in the Basement and the Apostles on the Roof; 1970

I’ve been working on my unpublished spiritual memoir today, Loving God without a Label, and thinking about my three visits to St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. I traveled to the Eternal City–and the Vatican City–at very different times in my life and I reacted to the seat of Catholicism in very different ways. In 1970, I was fourteen years-old, touring…
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American flags at a cemetery

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What’s the Point of a Flag Day, Anyway?

What to do with a damaged American flag.

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college graduate

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HOW Many Years did it take You to Graduate?

The lengths–and cookies–a person will go to graduate from college!

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Comfort Novels For Challenging Times

Comfort novels can fill an emotional void during personal difficulties

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Michelle Ule is a bestselling author of historical novellas, an essayist, blogger and the biographer of Mrs. Oswald Chambers: The Woman Behind the World's Bestselling Devotional.

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