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A Small Town. A Big Secret. One Chance to Heal.
In the small Pacific Northwest town of Port Lawrence, five people search for a way forward in the wake of broken trust and lost hope.
Molly McIntyre spends her days teaching fourth grade and her evenings and weekends caring for her grandmother Eleanor, a woman of deep faith who lives with chronic ...
Everyone in a position of responsibility knows the tension of leadership. It may be between tasks or people, money or mission, the present or the future. One often neglected tension is between our inner spiritual longings and the outward needs ofthe group we lead.But we need not feel forced to choose between the two. Leadership has more in common with an ellipse with two focal points than a bull's-eye ...
"Why are you single?"
"Just because."
However we answer that question, what's more important than why we are single is how we live as singles. Regardless of our relationship status, all of us are called to a life of vital discipleship. And walking with God can reshape singleness into a pilgrimage of transformation.
Pilgrim and ...
14th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year, Social Justice
No one said pursuing justice would be easy.
The road can be so challenging and the destination so distant that you may be discouraged by a lack of progress, compassion or commitment in your quest for justice. How do you stay committed to the journey when God's kingdom can seem so slow in coming?
Kent ...
From Black-and-White Belief to a Faith Full of Color
God is so much bigger than the box we often try to put him in.
Spiritual platitudes, easy answers, and rigid expressions of belief often cannot bear the weight oflife's real questions. For those whose faith has been shaped by black-and-white certainty or narrow church cultures, what can it look like to untangle your ...
God Has a Purpose for You as You Grow Older
You can't change the fact that you are getting older, and, indeed, you may not want to! Age brings many gifts and opportunities for continued growth. In this nine-session LifeGuide® Bible Study, Dale and Sandy Larsen help you discover the Bible's perspective on aging. Through studying passages from books of the Bible including James, ...
Number of Studies: 9
Is being single a great adventure?
Or is being single lonely and frustrating?
What is God's "word" for your life in singleness?
In this ten session LifeGuide® Bible Study, Ruth Goring leads you to explore these questions. You will learn to listen deeply to God, identify the gifts your life offers, cope effectively with temptation, make space for relationships, and grow into a ...
Number of Studies: 10
For Francis Andersen, the Old Testament book about Job is one of the supreme offerings of the human mind to the living God, and one of the best gifts of God to humanity. "The task of understanding it is as rewarding as it is strenuous. . . . One is constantly amazed at its audacious theology and at the magnitude of its intellectual achievement. Job is a prodigious book in the vast range of its ideas, ...
What is it like to be an Enneagram Two?
Pastor, lawyer, and Enneagram speaker Hunter Mobley reflects on this question with a mix of self-compassion and hunger for personal growth. Using the metaphor of a welcoming Southern porch, he describes Twos this way: "We have well-curated our reputations as people who can be counted on. We're the people of 'yes!' But beyond our front ...
Number of Studies: 40