As we walked the streets of our community this weekend giving away small bags of Valentine’s candy, my heart almost broke as I thought about all the people near our worship facility. Who are they? What’s their story? Do they know Christ? What aches and pains do they carry? “Hi, we’re your neighbor and wanted [...]

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By Dr. Matthew Lee Smith   As the Christmas season came to a close, I can remember how the focus for many was on themselves. They were interested in what THEY were going to get, what parties THEY were going to and what things THEY were going to be doing. In contrast to this was [...]

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We are so pleased you have returned to the Transformed podcast. In today’s episode, we explore how we can recover the message and mission of Jesus, and thus, Change the World. Matt’s guest today is Mike Slaughter, lead pastor at Ginghamsburg Church, is the three-decade dreamer of Ginghamsburg and the spiritual entrepreneur of ministry marketplace [...]

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Photo Credit: elca.org Editor’s Note: We continue our series of blogs for those who are reading the Bible with us cover-to-cover this year. Interspersed with our thoughts on our daily reading, we want to provide some tips about reading the Bible in general. Job: God Is Always Just (Job 32-37) Job has been through the [...]

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Feel free to forward this to a friend! After four members of my family turned 40, we found out how much the kids had picked up on their trepidation. The day before my niece’s ninth birthday, she observed, “Tomorrow I’ll be nine and next year it the big one-oh.” ~ Deborah Shapiro Fear spreads like [...]

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Feel free to forward this to a friend! Declare your mission – and then live it! ~ Tom Welch This morning I visited our health care provider because Melodee, the joy of my eyes for these past 30 years, was sick. As we went to the lab to get her blood tests done I noticed [...]

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Feel free to forward this to a friend! The Sort of Men and Women the Institute Aims to Send Out: “Those having these characteristics: Thorough consecration; Intense love for souls; A good knowledge of God’s Word, and especially how to use it in leading men to Christ; Willingness to endure hardship as good soldiers of [...]

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Feel free to forward this to a friend! “I pray you may have it too. It is a heart that is broken over teenage lostness. You know you have it if something happens in your heat when you see kids wandering a mall, hoping that something or someone will happen to them. Or when you [...]

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Feel free to forward this to a friend! “The proud have me in great derision, Yet I do not turn aside from Your law.” ~ David, Psalm 119:51 I remember going home to speak one Sunday, many years ago. I had come to faith in Christ in high school – actually led to Jesus by [...]

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Feel free to forward this to a friend! Compassion is … the force that makes a bridge from the island of one individuality to the island of the other. ~ John O’Donohue ‘Life’s interruptions are God’s appointments.’ I remember the first time I heard this and wondered about it. Today’s passage reveals the truth of [...]

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