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How lucky can you get? I'm cheap-the best value in town. I'm popular—I swear by my own name to make you self-assured, hip, and suave. You can purchase me in a six-pack at your nearest Wal-Mart, and you and two of your friends can chug-a-lug the likes of me in no time flat.
As the default option…
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HT: What makes KNU special?
A: KNU is focused on helping people with special needs. For example, we have 382 students with disabilities. We help them to find wholeness through therapy, through spiritual formation, and through building relationships.
HT: Explain how you manage being chaplain to…
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"Excuse me, I must pray now," she says as the call to prayer echoes throughout the neighborhood. Graciously, she removes herself from the small concrete-floored, plywood-walled room where we are visiting. Sweat drips down our faces as we listen, the asbestos roof allowing no relief from the…
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The Season of Advent is about waiting; not a passive waiting, but the kind of waiting we see in this passage from Isaiah: an expectant waiting. If there is a “fun” kind of waiting, it is this kind! As Christians, we do not just sit around tensely awaiting bad news. Rather, we are people who…
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The Holy Ghost is our Sanctifier, and when He sanctifies He takes up His abode in the heart. His sanctifying baptism purifies the heart and He comes to dwell therein.
He is the abiding Comforter. He does not come and go occasionally, but remains; and once being filled with God, it is the believer'…
Jan, 12, 2010 0
The Holy Ghost is our Sanctifier, and when He sanctifies He takes up His abode in the heart. His sanctifying baptism purifies the heart and He comes to dwell therein.
He is the abiding Comforter. He does not come and go occasionally, but remains; and once being filled with God, it is the believer'…
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Nobody knows me. Nobody cares about what I do. For too many people these are familiar feelings. Whether assisting customers, mowing lawns, teaching classes, preaching sermons, or distributing worship folders, people need to feel valued.
Ironically, one of the least known people of the Bible…
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An eager group of people from Germany and the U.S—all under 30. No formal church location or building. A congregation comprised of students, homosexuals, the privileged, homeless, atheists—the searching. And lives "wasted in service" to God and others.
While this may not be what many think of as…
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The phone rang and startled the chaplain awake from a deep sleep. She looked at the clock. 2:00 a.m., it read. An anxious voice on the other end said, “Chaplain, can you come now? There’s been an accident at the plant. We’ve lost someone.”
And so the marketplace chaplain went, donning her steel-…
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How often do we see Jesus in the Scriptures stopping what He was doing and attending to someone who seemed to be on the margins, a person of no importance? When parents brought their children to Jesus, the disciples scolded them for bothering Him. Yet Jesus stopped what He was doing to focus on the…