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Category Archives: Living as Apprentices
Starting New – 2013
I love the fact that human beings artificially created an end to one year and the beginning of another. I need to wind up and re-start, declutter (thoughts as well as objects) and think fresh, sort through and re-do, think back and plan ahead. … Continue reading
The Loss of Innocence
As I struggle to put words to my thoughts about yet another tragedy – this one taking the lives of so many children in the kingdom – I offer these thoughts by Mark Galli, editor of Christianity Today. Hopefully, it will help … Continue reading
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Tagged CT, Newton, school violence
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Enrolling a Child In Jesus’ School – By Jeff Huisman
Have you ever wondered how young a child can enroll as one of Jesus’ apprentices? I have. Eliana was 18 months old when Amanda and I joined the first Apprentice cohort at CMC. As we slowly absorbed the idea of … Continue reading
Random Insights
As we edge closer and closer to the 500th post on this blog, I am re-purposing a few posts that appeared in the very beginning. This one was published on December 9, 2o12. Random Noodling #1: I was listening to a discussion … Continue reading
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Tagged " Lectio Divina, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Isaiah 40, the first shall be last
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Max Lucado Gem
Great oak trees grow from little acorns. And children (and adults) grow into great people if they are helped to “just be the person that God made you to be.” Max Lucado‘s beautiful picture book, The Oak Inside the Acorn, which is really appropriate for … Continue reading
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Tagged Richard Foster, spiritual formation
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No More Need to Impress – Jeanne Nyhuis
I used to think I needed to do something great in my life. At least one big thing for which people would remember me for the next, say, 75 years or so—the equivalent of two or three generations. I wanted … Continue reading
Unity in Diversity – The Legacy of Howard Thurman
The following quote by Howard Thurman, an African American theologian, preacher, and quiet activist, came up on the Church of the Savior Inward/Outward e-mail today. It interested me first because of its vision for authentic unity between people and secondly because Andre Daley … Continue reading
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Enough of God to Go Around
A dust-up at work the other day reminded me of something I learned from Stephen Covey years ago: the principles of scarcity and abundance. I was raised in an atmosphere of scarcity. To me, there was never enough time, enough … Continue reading
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