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threethrowing

Posted by jennifer benson schuldt on November 6th, 2012 | 6 responses
If you don’t know how to “threethrow,” don’t worry—it’s easy. You hold up your hand and pin down your pinky finger with your thumb. The three remaining fingers represent the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. You can... read more »

a beautiful community

Posted by marvin williams on June 3rd, 2012 | 4 responses
In his book A Good and Beautiful Community, James Bryan Smith quotes an early Christian document known as the Letter to Diognetus (AD 120–200): “Though they are residents at home in their own countries, their behavior... read more »

shared happiness

Posted by Jeff Olson on May 21st, 2010 | 7 responses
The 2007 film Into the Wild tells the true story of Chris McCandless. Upon graduating from college in the early 1990s, McCandless had become disillusioned with his conventional life. Without saying a word to his family, he... read more »

in the tent

Posted by regina franklin on June 14th, 2009 | 2 responses
As I was sorting through the daily mail, my life suddenly merged with the lives of fellow believers thousands of miles away. As I looked at the simple foldout from a magazine, the brown and white colors of the map muted the... read more »

breaking bread

Posted by mike wittmer on May 6th, 2009 | 2 responses
Last month my brothers and our families enjoyed an outstanding dinner with our Amish cousins. The Amish begin every dinner with a silent prayer of thanksgiving, and—perhaps because their homemade meals are so... read more »

why take communion?

Posted by K. T. Sim on April 19th, 2009 | 4 responses
Recently I was the guest speaker for the worship service in a church on Communion Sunday. When the pastor asked me to oversee the taking of Communion, I did it the way my home church does it. The pastor later told me that it... read more »