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Weekend Reading
Child (frustrated with my insistence that they not kick the walls): Do you OWN this church or something??? Me: this week, I do. Child (bewildered): Who owns it next week? I spent the week shuffling...
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Spiritual Disciplines for Kids: Why?
This week at Transformation City Church we have issued a church-wide emphasis on prayer and fasting. We’re focusing on surrender, of our church, of ourselves, our agendas, our goals, our dreams, our...
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Spiritual Disciplines for Kids: Fasting
Continuing our discussion from yesterday: How do I teach the child I am discipling about fasting? How do I include them in an age-appropriate way? The Purpose of Fasting John Wesley said of fasting...
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Friday Book Club: Dangerous Presence
I am so excited to be sharing this book with you today! Recently Jason Butler the lead pastor at Transformation City Church released his first book: Dangerous Presence: Following Jesus into the City....
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Synon(amiss) – Why our approach to justice and mercy is missing the mark
“Jesus and justice go together” he said. It’s no news to me at this point, in some ways it’s astonishing to me that this is still news to some of my brothers and sisters in the U.S. Church. I forget...
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Dangerous Presence – What About Bob?
This post is the second in a series discussing the book Dangerous Presence: Following Jesus Into the City by Jason Butler. You can read more about or purchase the book here. What About Bob? Butler...
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Did You Forget?
He’s exactly what you would expect of a 6th grade boy. High energy, an alternately charming and maddening blend of extreme silliness and budding sarcasm, an affinity for jokes involving rude body...
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Dangerous Presence: Risk Management
This is the third post in a series discussing the book Dangerous Presence by Jason Butler. You can read more or purchase the book here. “Americans typically don’t like risk. We see risk as bad,...
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Deeper than Words
There are many things I bemoan in this life, in our U.S. culture. The divisiveness. The unrelenting messages we’re fed that we don’t have enough, don’t make enough, and just plain aren’t enough. The...
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Weekend Reading
Life Interrupted: Mindfulness and Community in a Culture of Rugged Individualism “As I have grown as a follower of Christ, I have come to believe that one of the greatest challenges we as modern...
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Looking back: 2013
2013 started off with a “blahhh” as I battled through 10 days of the worst case of flu I’ve ever had in my life and somehow, miraculously, Ben and Cadence did not catch it. I caused a bit of a stir by...
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#Justice: A Peek into Urban Violence w/ Megan Westra
“Do you feel safe?” Well, not always. I’m getting used to it now. The wide eyes and once-in-awhile gaping mouth. “Where do you live?” I live in the inner city. On purpose. And I have no plans of...
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You’re good.
The after school program at the church I serve at kicked off on Wednesday. I have the joy of teaching the K5-2nd grade class. On Wednesday afternoon eleven smiling little faces paraded their way into...
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