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Holy Hearing Aid! The Missing Ministry of the Modern Church
Is the modern church in need of a Holy Hearing Aid? If we asked an impartial artist to render a symbolic drawing after observing the American church, I can only imagine that she would draw a being covered with talking mouths. As if the body of Christ had made a visit to Chernobyl and, like …[ read more ]
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Report from a Fat Girl in a Skinny World – My Cross-Cultural Life
I totally get cross-cultural misunderstandings. Largely because I regularly feel lost and misunderstood in the context of my own culture. I’ve spent the past month training almost one hundred coworkers how to listen. I’ve done so much listening myself that I’m ready to send my ears on a long week-end. During the course of this …[ read more ]
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McManna Burgers? Day 4 in the Advent of a New Tradition
So, it bothers me that spending quality time with God doesn’t guarantee that the rest of my day falls neatly into place. I still get frustrated, disappointed, short-tempered and wonder why some things are the way they are. And I can be reading my Bible, having like this perfect moment of connection with what it …[ read more ]