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4 weeks ago | 
christiancentury.org | Liz Goodman |Mac Loftin |Amy Hall |Liz Charlotte Grant
To receive these posts by email each Monday, sign up. For more commentary on this week's readings, see the Reflections on the Lectionary page. For full-text access to all articles, subscribe to the Century. I find Acts difficult to preach on. The stories in Luke’s “sequel” are long, and they’re about events that are hard to relate to. The Holy Spirit in Acts is so present, active, and effective that it’s tough to find analogues, at least in my life.
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1 month ago | 
christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |Amy Hall |Liz Charlotte Grant |Phil Christman
Clockwise from upper left: bombermoon / iStock / Getty | Markus Spiske / Unsplash | NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / T. Temim | Mlenny / E+ / Getty The Buechner Narrative Writing Project honors the life and legacy of writer and theologian Frederick Buechner with the aim of nurturing the art of spiritual writing and reflection. Readers are invited to submit first-person narratives (under 1,000 words).
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
stream.org | Michael Brown |Tom Sileo |Amy Hall |Kathryn Lopez
By Michael Brown Published on July 2, 2024 As much as anything else in this world, God wants us to share His heart. We are often hungry for His power, but seldom aware of His pain. We are eager to experience His goodness, but think little of His grief.
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May 18, 2024 | 
stream.org | Jack Graham |Nancy Flory |Amy Hall |Anna Pepperling
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.” (Proverbs 3:5–6)Few Bible passages are as well-known as this one. Many of us have made it our life verse. We meditate on its truth and seek to order our lives around its wisdom. And yet, many Christians don’t fully understand the beauty and depth of the promises these two short verses offer. I know I didn’t.
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Apr 21, 2024 | 
stream.org | Amy Hall |Tom Sileo |Michael Brown |Jerry Newcombe
By Amy K. Hall Published on April 21, 2024 If there’s one thing we learn from the book of Judges, it’s this: God can — and does — work through anyone and everything, including our sin and failures.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
stream.org | Jules Gomes |Tom Gilson |Amy Hall
The Jesuits have a history of subverting Scripture to promote propaganda. To discredit the clarity of Scripture in counter-Reformation polemics, Jesuit luminaries like St. Robert Bellarmine and Fr. Diogo de Payva de Andrada resorted to the subterfuge of disparaging the Bible as obscure, even on matters of salvation.
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Mar 2, 2024 | 
stream.org | Aliya Kuykendall |Tom Gilson |Amy Hall
By Aliya Kuykendall Published on March 2, 2024 “Course I want to live — long life. … Who doesn’t? It’s not really my plan though,” Ethan Hallmark said in his I Am Second video, in which he and his family describe their faith in God amid a battle with childhood cancer.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
stream.org | Robby Lashua |Clarice Clayton |Alan Shlemon |Amy Hall
By Robby Lashua Published on February 5, 2024 I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. “I’m not inclusive in spite of what Scripture says; I’m inclusive because of what Scripture says.” My wife read me these words from a Facebook post by one of my former seminary professors.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
stream.org | Tom Gilson |Amy Hall |Nancy Flory |Billy Hallowell
It’s the second week of January and I’m still feeling my fourth seriously persistent respiratory virus of 2023, which has stuck around long enough now to be my first for 2024. I’m praying it’s also the last one for this year. I hardly ever catch cold more than once or twice a year, if that, but this past year I outdid that by far. I’m not the only one: The CDC says these bugs have ticked upward lately. Obviously there are far worse problems.
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Jan 5, 2024 | 
stream.org | Jacob Hawk |Nancy Flory |Amy Hall
My beautiful wife and I, along with our dapper parents, just returned from a wonderful Christmas in the “Big Apple.” It was everything one would suspect. City sidewalks dressed in style. Christmas lights as far as the eye can see. Magnificent days in a special place. I set an important goal to accomplish in our 90 hours in Manhattan. In addition to seeing Rockefeller Center, the Rockettes, and every Christmas attraction in the “city that never sleeps,” I vowed to buy a fake Rolex.
