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A Living Epistle

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We have much to report about our trip to the Philippines, but it will be difficult to convey in a blog how much love we bring back to you all from our Global Partner Zoilo; his wife, Betty; their daughter, Dotty; and all our other brothers and sisters in the Philippines. Everywhere we went...

Silence and Stillness in a Loud World

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“Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.” Psalm 46:10“You, Holy Spirit, are a whisper. A frequency so humble that our city noise would drown You out but for desperately longing hearts.”  Strahan Coleman...

Living in Christ As Almost Ninth Graders

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Interview of Myles Ready & Emmett BettingerBy Sara Bettinger It is a gift to be reminded, daily, that there is no junior Holy Spirit. That the same Holy Spirit that lives in an adult who has followed Jesus for decades is the same Holy Spirit that lives in our Jesus-following children. The...

Slow Formation

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I really think I’m slowly, slowly being formed by reading the Bible. That may sound obvious or expected because when we decide to follow Jesus we are told that the Bible is God’s word and we should read it, so of course it’s going to form you. I don’t know about you but...

The Invitation

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By Sara Bettinger-- It was one of those days at the grocery store where there were only two check out lanes open, and I was standing in one of the lines on a “6 feet apart” sticker that snaked down the cereal aisle. I was already taking deep breaths, planning how I would race to my...

One Step Closer to the God Life

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By Sara Bettinger -- Hello church family! How are you? We miss seeing you face-to-face. When we finally get to be together again, it will feel like a reunion, with so many things to catch up on. I really hope that you are all well and finding little bits of richness in this unusual season of...