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Latest Devotionals
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Making today creative.
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” –Howard Thurman For all the Creatives in our world, I hope my devotions…
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Day Five – With Ozzie and Birdie
A friend of mine told me he was going to another nation to teach English and share his faith. He said he was still working on his language skills but he has his testimony memorized. Sharing your story is an…
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Day Four – with Ozzie and Biddy
I think about the Cross in different ways: where I found mercy, how I am saved, what moves me to consider His great love. But the Cross is that place where I pray, because it is where His answers are…
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Story and Spirit
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Choosing the best conjunction to start your thesis statement.
To write a clear thesis statement, choose a workable conjunction from the two lists below and use it at the start or in the middle to introduce the second half of your thesis statement – you don’t have to use a conjunction, but it may help you with clarity and form:
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Keep it logical – writers, avoid fallacies.
Our writing should persuade. One of the biggest hindrances to writing with a compelling argument is the logic fallacy. If we don’t have all the facts, haven’t thought deeply on these, and edited our words so they are convincing, we can often fall back on a lazy fallacy to try to strengthen our argument
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Telling non-fiction stories: three keys to keeping readers nosy
Writers want nosy readers. Writing non-fiction needs character, color, and a frame to center around.
Features and Articles
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Hundreds of International Students Find Safe Refuge at Church Café
From the beginning, the leaders wanted to create the café as a place where students could feel safe, make new friends and see and hear the good news in the process. It wasn’t long until they learned how important this decision was.
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My Son sent me a workout plan…
And here’s what I accomplished! Let me start with the last item on the list: * 30 second plank – I’m pretty sure he misspelled this for 1 plate of 30 pancakes, but I couldn’t eat them all. Morning Workout: (This is Day-Two Update)
Books and Novels
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Creatives and the Creator
Art fundamentally begins in the heart of the Father. God is both Creator and giver of creativity. Here are the places where art meets the Kingdom of Heaven. Join in these devotionals to see where the Spirit may connect your creativity with the Creator.
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The Architect: Foundations, Spans & Lanterns
No matter how large the vision is or how tall the building designed by the architect grows, one feature remains essential. The Foundation.
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The Everything Carry-All
Gertrude worked the counter at Montague’s Whatever-You-Want Antiques and, though she wasn’t always agreeable, she agreed with the store’s name. You could find anything here.
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The Bookbinder’s Signet
The Curator’s Series: Book One – What it’s all about. A secret organization called the Anarchist is out to overthrow Western culture and replace it with a godless Marxist society. In Italy, the Anarchist destroys the culture one work of art at a time. For Alessandra Ristori, her search for her family’s story kindles her…
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The Mathematician: Art’s Foundation and Faith
Most people don’t place mathematics with the Creative Arts – mainly because of traumatic algebra tests or unmemorized theorems. But the classical studies planted arithmetic squarely in the midst of seven primary liberal arts. Medieval philosophers so valued numbers that they declared “arithmetic to be pure numbers, geometry to be numbers in space, music to…
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The Painter: Unlimited Beauty, Unlimited Palette
Piero lived in the 1400’s and spent nearly every day at a desk writing contracts and signing off on legal documents in an obscure village outside of the city of Florence. He would not even have made the history books except that, instead of retiring to his home after work, he spent his nights with…
Evangelism and Outreach
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Have you considered starting an International Cafe for students?
I’m not much of a believer in “if we build it they will come” as much as “is God up to something here? let’s get in on it” kind of person. God is definitely up to something.
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Gift Bag Blitz Outreach
We’ve called this a Smiley Bag Blast Outreach. It’s guaranteed to make each person smile! The goal is to mobilize your whole faith community to show kindness on a specific day or week and invite 10, 100, 1000, or more people to your church in one week. Overview: This servant evangelism act is a connection outreach…
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Tough Questions Series – Heaven
Discussing Heaven: Here are Opening and Take it Deeper Questions to use before or after the study guide: 1. What has your tradition of faith or experience growing up told you heaven is? 2. Do you believe in heaven? 3. Does heaven start and end? When do you believe it starts? 4. What is one thing…
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Whether you’re seeking deeper devotionals, insights on spiritual awakenings, reflections on literature and art, or ideas to help with personal outreach pursuits, or perhaps you just want to share your story, I’d love to hear from you.