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COVER STORY
“Hang On to Your Cleats,”
by Jon Johnston.
In our Christian journey, it is very possible to cease growing. After being sanctified, we can coast along. But static Christianity does not compute biblically. We must be deeply committed to becoming ever more intimate with our Lord.
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FEATURES
- “The Bible and the Painting That Came to Life,” by Eddy Hall
Are you settling for a lifeless Bible? The Holy Spirit can bring it alive for you, opening the Scriptures to reveal what God wants to show you of himself.
- “To Grow in Grace,” by Roderick T. Leupp
The undeserved favor God lavishes upon us in Jesus Christ is constantly free and available to all.
- “The Widow Who Wouldn’t Quit,”
by Teanna Sunburg
When our prayers seem to fall on deaf ears, perhaps it is not God’s ears that are deaf.
- “How’s Your Serve?”
by Carl M. Leth
Following Christ not only is an internal reality for the disciple but demands an external expression as well. In addition to the inner focus of spiritual formation, we must also give attention to the discipline of service and the practice of giving.
COLUMNS
- Essay: “Living a Kept Life,”
by Gay L. Leonard
Keeping food cold is just for sissy refrigerators. The brave ones with a heart chronicle real-life triumphs and tragedies.
- Gen Next: “Creating Sacred Rituals,” by James K. Hampton
If children and youth don’t find answers to their questions through the rituals and ceremonies of the church, they will find or create other rituals, many of which will be opposed to the Christian faith.
- Editor's Forum:This month’s forum answers questions about God’s “hand of protection” on nations and why some Christians relish Bible reading while others fail to find the real enjoyment of it.
- In the Mirror: “Name That Room,” by Chonda Pierce
As our congregation entered a building program, I gave a great deal of careful consideration to one of the most critical areas of any new church: the rest rooms.
- Portraits: “Ernie and Ginny Thompson: Lay Witnesses on a Mission,” by Debbie Salter Goodwin
Ernie and Ginny understand that you can’t lead people where you aren’t being led. They commit themselves to the same standard of obedience they ask of others.
- The Deeper Way: “Inexhaustible!” by A. Brent Cobb
God’s supply is unlimited, more than adequate to fill our longings and meet our needs.
- Front Line: “Heeding the MK Call,” by Sherry Pinson
Since he was 4, Shane Wesley has been on the mission field with his parents, David and Glynda, missionaries to Argentina. In Indianapolis last year, 15-year-old Shane talked about being one of the few, the proud . . . the missionary kids.
- Family Tree: “The Thing to Do,” by Jerry and Lynda Cohagan
We are family, and families support each other. It’s the right thing to do.
- Commission: “Does God Really Guide?” by Paul G. Cunningham
If human minds can conceive of a system that follows us and communicates with us, then why is it so difficult to believe that the God who created everything can design a way to stay in touch with His creation?
- Metro: “Cali’s Christian Cartel,” by Fletcher L. Tink
A Bolivian missionary became so distraught by conditions in Cali—15 street murders a day—that he convened intercessors to pray for the city. Miraculously, transformation is under way.
- Globally Speaking: “See Globally—But Think Locally,” by Richard F. Zanner
He who is “no respecter of persons” commissioned us to go to all nations to teach everything He commanded. His charge is all-encompassing; it is nonselective. Are we obedient?
NEXT MONTH – Ministry Outside the Box: Creative Access Areas
- “Wise as Serpents, Harmless as Doves,”
With little money, little access to training, far too few Bibles, and no religious freedom, believers in creative access areas nevertheless push on with what they own in abundance: courage, sacrifice, selflessness, and the irresistible Light of Christ. We are humbled by the privilege of standing with them.
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