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Chip Songer | “It is safe to say God knows we are pretty bad at remembering. Time and time again, throughout the Bible, God commands his people to set up reminders of His faithfulness.”

Peyton Marple | “Grief now married to this inexplicable peace. The presence of God, who is light and life and light, met the hopelessness and heaviness of losing a loved one.”

Dennis Hounshell | “It doesn’t always take a major overhaul for relationships to improve. And even a little improvement can create lasting momentum for growing stronger, healthier relationships.”

Brennan Breuer | “It is in this messiness that God wants to use flawed people like us – in the residue of abandonment, abuse of every kind, grief, and loneliness.”

Taylor Miller | “Why do we sometimes have the hardest time believing the most liberating truths?”

Lydia Meredith | “⁣As a Christian, I am claiming to live in accordance with the Spirit, so if I ignored God’s calling to me simply because it was inconvenient, would I be living in a way consistent with my claim? Are my actions answering to my flesh, or to the Spirit?”

Karli Montgomery | “As our food was being prepared, [Kritsana] asked a question that continues to resonate with me: ‘How can I see a prisoner’s status or future? Look at the Heart of God instead of the heart of the world.'”

Jim Wickenkamp | “Even though we are not in our heavenly home, we are already citizens of our heavenly kingdom, and we can live daily in our King’s presence.”

Lindsay Haddan | “We all have questions and uncertainties at times, but those are the moments when God wants us to trust Him and trust that we’ll be used for His glory.”

Ruthie Bond | “⁣Worship was not made to be reactionary to our reality. It’s what our heart was made to rest in.”

Darrin King| “⁣Where have you been tempted to walk by sight and not by faith?”

Allison Stump | “We all started healing when we connected to God and to His people. Was it easy? No. Was it instant? No. Was it worth it? Yes, a thousand times yes.”

Nathan Storms | “In just a few weeks, I’ll move to Japan with Mustard Seed Network to help spread the good news of Jesus to people who have never heard about Him.”

Flint Spencer | “When people start to see themselves as an asset to the Body of Christ, not just as passive attendants at church, they start to come alive.”

Amy Storms | “⁣He had been right, but he’d hurt someone with his rightness. I ended with a sentence we said often in our home: ‘Being kind is better than being right.'”

Josh Clark | “Waiting is not mere idleness or an indefinite time of mediocrity. Waiting allows us to witness the beauty that God is working all around us in his timing.”

Ethan Greer | “When we first came to Japan, there was a missionary who told me, “Japan needs oaks.” He meant that the condition of the church in Japan is in need of mission work that will last a looong time. “

Dan Toney | “As I look back, most of the things that I have strived to finish first at are really not important in the big picture.”

Brad Warren | “⁣It’s one that champions humility over charisma, being kind over being compelling, servanthood over efficiency, sacrifice over capability, simplicity over dynamism, loving others over being loved by others.”

Chip Songer | “If I had to use a few words to describe the journey outside of the struggle, they would be rewarding, refreshing, exciting, awe-inspiring, beautiful, and worth it. “