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Roots

We love our kids and we want them to know they are loved! Moreover, we want then to know they are loved by Christ. Paul captures it perfectly in Ephesians 3:17-18, when he writes, “I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height and depth of God’s love.” Oftentimes, the roots that connect us to God’s love grow deeply through Christ-based traditions and rituals. These...

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Poverty Didn't Keep Me From My Calling

“Throughout nine long years of pursuing my education, I experienced a lot of uncertainty and darkness – blindness, debilitating back pain, poverty and abandonment from my family. I was even stoned once by Hindu fanatics and locked in a room to keep me from preaching the Gospel. But looking back, I now know that God’s promises are true! I survived and became a Bible teacher and pastor. God’s promises always gave me strength and kept me on track.” &ndash...

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Finding Hope in the Valley

"I started to trust that He has a reason for my situation and a plan for it — that it wouldn’t be something I have to go through, but something I get to go through in order to show a different community what it means to trust Christ.” – Lance Parker Lance Parker received his third kidney transplant three weeks after his wife Lindsey gave birth to their first child. That was ten months ago. “I don’t recommend having two life events in one year,&rdquo...

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