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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. “

Alyssa Tournear | “All my hurry that morning was keeping me from experiencing the love, joy, and peace of the Kingdom. I was losing out on encouragement and rich conversation from a friend. I was losing out on all the wisdom from what I was reading. And I was gaining absolutely nothing.”

Addie Jarrett | “‘That is my most favorite sound in the whole wide world. Because that means I get to be at Life House, and Life House is home.'”

Peter | “Look around, slow down, and let the light of Christ shine through.”

Maggie Schade | “Shouldn’t we value our brothers and sisters like our Father does? Shouldn’t we do our part to remind our community that they are loved, chosen, and placed in their families by perfect design and intention?”

Elizabeth Rayburn | “I was struck with another time that logically there seemed no way…when we as sinners could see no way, and God sent His own Son to save us.”