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Commission:
“The
World Our Parish”
by Jesse C. Middendorf
The work
of missions is an everywhere thing! No nation or culture is
exempt from the call to make disciples of Jesus Christ.
The
Deeper Way: “Heaven’s
Boot Camp”
by Karen Dean Fry
We should
be practicing in this life those things that we can do forever
in heaven.
Essay:
“God
Is Still Doing Something Big”
by Lawrence W. Wilson
It was
God who gave some to be prophets, some to be apostles and
teachers, and some to be little kids with slingshots, each
one playing a role in the epic drama. Now how cool is that?
Family
Tree: “The
Priceless Pearl”
by Betty Knight
I realized
that the “pearl of great price” had passed from
my grandfather to my mother, to her children, and to their
children.
Fruit
of the Spirit: “Kindness”
by C. Jeanne Orjala Serrao
The Holy
Spirit enables us to be what God created us to be: kind, good,
morally upright, generous, friendly.
Holiness:
“Holy
God—Holy People—Holy World”
by Alex Deasley
Through lives in which hatred is replaced with love, indifference
with caring, and coldness with compassion, the holiness of
God will become the infectious attraction that saves humanity.
Metro:
“Finding
Redemption in the City”
by Fletcher L. Tink
Small-town Savannah grew up to be urban Savannah and gave
a loser—John Wesley—a second chance.
Passport:
“In
the ‘Potter’s’ Hands”
by Carmen J. Ringhiser
The way David and Sylvia Potter live confirms their choice
to be pliable clay in the Potter’s hands.
Portraits:
“Wavny
Toussaint: Doing Justice, Loving Mercy”
by Dean Nelson
Being a judge is a daily reminder of what we all need: mercy. |
