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Five Ways to Be an Older Woman Younger Women Can Hear
They’re not listening. This is the complaint I hear from my contemporaries about the next generations. Women of a certain age worry about the generations coming up behind us. We know we have a biblically-ordained responsibility to reach and teach younger women, but we flounder in this task. Largely because we view it as a …[ read more ]
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Controlling the Narrative – How Christians Are Getting It All Wrong
We’re doing it wrong. Really wrong. But, it’s not hard to do it right. This post won’t take long. These are the days of public relations, round-the-clock communication, social media, and spin. Anyone with an agenda or message knows how important it is to “control the narrative” or “get ahead of the story” when engaging others. Politicians, entertainers, business giants, and even the church …[ read more ]
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The First Thing You Notice about Pharisees
I have lately taken up the study of Pharisee watching. It started when a twenty-something gushed over advice I’d provided and referred to me as “wise” (old). It was further inspired when another staffer asked how old someone born in 1978 would be and the reply was forty. Forty? Really. Forty? I left high school …[ read more ]
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His Words Had an Eternal Impact on My Life – Rev. Billy Graham – Gone Home
I never met him, but his words had an eternal impact on my life. When I was a very young girl, my mom had a Billy Graham Crusade playing on the black-and-white television in our living room while she sewed at the kitchen table. Something about Rev. Graham’s voice drew my attention to his words. …[ read more ]
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The Church of Chicken Little – How Do We Represent the Voice of Jesus in Demanding, Divisive Times
What does the voice of Jesus sound like in demanding, divisive times? As His church, we need to consider this because we either represent it, convolute it, or dilute it depending on what we add to the public conversation. This is the question communicators for Jesus wrestle with whenever we dip a toe into a …[ read more ]