As a young bride, the concept of hospitality struck fear into my heart. Oh, I was familiar with the idea, but only as one who had been on the receiving end up until my marriage. I had wonderful memories as a child of a house filled with food, friends, and laughter. The sounds of music as my dad ...
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The Hospitality of Friendship
Quite a few years back, my husband and I were two recent college graduates from two different states who fell in irreversible L.O.V.E. and made a home somewhere in the middle. It was no matter to us that we had no immediate family and only a small handful of friends in this new town, because we had ...
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Podcast E16: Let’s Talk About Discipleship In The Local Church – Pastor Perspectives – with Matthew Kruse and Patti Rosell
About our guests this week:
This week, we welcomed Pastor Matthew Kruse and women's ministry leader Patti Rosell from Seven Mile Road Church near Boston, MA. They have a podcast called Kalos Conversations which is geared towards "helping churches ...
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An Everyday Offering
One of the most humbling sets of verses in the whole Bible for me is Philippians 2:14-18. Paul writes these words right on the heels of his passage about how Christ Jesus emptied Himself, laid down everything for our sake, and went to the cross:
“Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that ...
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Squeezed Out
A few nights ago I was done.
It had been a long day; my oldest son had a disagreeable attitude that caused some tension between him and me. My husband was away for the evening at worship practice for the Sunday morning service.
It had been a mostly good day, but a long one, and by bedtime my ...
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