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What if God Doesn’t Want “the Best” for Your Child?

January 15, 2019 By Meredith Baker 7 Comments

Sitting around the breakfast table last year, I read through the story of the Annunciation with my children. We paused at the illustration and took in the details. Dirt floor. No windows. I asked, “Does this look like a poor person’s house or a rich person’s house?

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: failure, freedom, Holy Family, Jesus, overwhelm, parenting

Learning to trust God and let go

June 1, 2016 By Nancy Hopkins-Greene 2 Comments

I’ve learned over the years that letting go is one of the primary and most challenging practices of parenting. That’s especially true as my son flies away to begin adult life.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: adult child, freedom, parenting

Following Jesus With My Whole Life

March 7, 2016 By Grace Aheron 3 Comments

In the first century, a man named Paul worked as a community organizer building bridges across incredibly disparate people groups: slaves and slaveholders, women and men, historically […]

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: church, community, discipleship, economy, freedom, gardening, intentional community, Prayer

To Be Set Free

February 26, 2016 By Marcus Halley 3 Comments

“This place has freed you. Now go and free others.” I am not sure if she will ever remember speaking those words to me, but those […]

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Filed Under: Lent Tagged With: freedom, Howard Thurman, Jr., Martin Luther King, transformation

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