*Editorial Note: When Lead Pastor Kris Beckert told me that she wanted to write a piece on pastoral longevity because she realized that none of ... Read More The post A (Needed) Conversation On Pastoral Longevity appeared first on Missio Alliance.| Missio Alliance
When I was in seminary, I said “Yeah, right.” Responding in a similar way as my youth group teenagers did to adult advice, the warning ... Read More The post The Secret Sauce For Pastoral Longevity appeared first on Missio Alliance.| Missio Alliance
Scripture is clear: “The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. ... Read More The post How We Treat Immigrants appeared first on Missio Alliance.| Missio Alliance
You’re dead. It probably happened in one of those dramatic ways Pentecostal preachers love to warn you about—a car accident, maybe a plane crash. Now, ... Read More The post Saved?: What Will You Do? appeared first on Missio Alliance.| Missio Alliance
“Are you ok, Ju?” My dad stood at the door of my dark bedroom, the only light coming from the hallway. He looked down at ... Read More The post Saved?: Where Will You Go? appeared first on Missio Alliance.| Missio Alliance
"Most of us preach rest far better than we practice it."| Missio Alliance
What if there are factors besides the claims of the gospel itself that are making it hard or impossible for the unbelieving world to accept?| Baptist News Global
"The work of racial healing is not optional for followers of the Way of Jesus. It is a way of being–a deeply raw, courageous, and redemptive process–that is essential to our formation into the likeness of Christ."| Missio Alliance
"The natural world is a restorative place for our souls. In nature, God may not change my circumstances, but may bring about my healing."| Missio Alliance
1 Maccabees 9:24-16:24; 2 Maccabees 7; 1 Kings (3 Kingdoms) 5:4; Micah 4:4; Zechariah 8:4; Ezekiel 34:27; Hebrews 12; Romans 4:17 We have already devoted two episodes to the first nine chapters of …| Edith M. Humphrey
For seven hours on July 9, 170 residents of the carceral state became immersed in a sound stage-like environment during the Inside Knowledge journalism symposium, an event co-facilitated by Justice for Everybody (JFE) at the Yale Institute for Incarceration and Public Safety (YIIPS) and the resident-founded Carceral Studies Journalism Guild (CSJG).| Davis Vanguard
"Something about the natural world connects with us deep inside our bones and within our souls, drawing us to something greater. Nature is where people often experience God."| Missio Alliance
"Summer months teem with life. Considering that God, the Creator, invented summer, there must be theological truth here, and a spiritual invitation."| Missio Alliance
"Kintsugi art is a perfect picture of the long, slow, arduous yet beautiful mending work of forgiveness and reconciliation after trauma."| Missio Alliance
The Earth apex predators will revive will be vibrant, of habitable weather, a planet that will “pay us back” with knowledge, medicine, health, spiritual experience, aesthetic elation, and wisdom—the wisdom of understanding our place in nature’s order.| Earth Tongues
It was shortly after the winter solstice, eight years ago, when I did something that I had done nothing quite like before. Triggered by the cresting of a claustrophobia that had been growing for a decade-and-a-half, from the time I left my childhood home below the dark woods of a place named Dancing Green, it began with me shifting a sofa and an armchair tight against my living room wall and sliding an oak dining table across the carpet and into a corner.| Earth Tongues
Fearful. Frightened. Gripped by their unbelief. Two disciples got out of town. Jerusalem was unsafe, especially now that the body of Jesus was gone. Cleopas and his unnamed companion were shell shocked as described in the central story given to us in Luke 24. They set out for Emmaus. It was less than a day’s […] The post Jesus Shows Himself Alive appeared first on GGWO Church Baltimore.| GGWO Church Baltimore
In Federal litigation, the general rule is that the party responding to the Rule 45 subpoena pays the costs and fees associated with responding. Essentially, federal courts see it as a cost of doing business.| LaszloLaw