2 Corinthians 5

A Counselor Shares the One Story that Moved Her Most of All

May 6, 2013 Devotional Mundane

[This article by Christina Fox originally published here on her blog "To Show Them Jesus" on March 25, 2013.] “The One Story That Moves Me Most of All” by Christina Fox I once held the hands of a rape victim while we sat in a hospital waiting room. We spoke different languages, but I could [...]

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Book Recommendation – Not by Sight

April 5, 2013 Good Reading

When I was in college I nearly lost an eye in a construction accident. A bunch of us from church were smashing our clumsy thumbs as we hammered framing nails to build a house for a low-income family. A co-laborer’s stray framing nail ricocheted off the wood and through the air, piercing through my right [...]

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The Gospel Changes How I See “My” Time

November 16, 2012 Devotional Mundane

by Kristen Narara “Spare time.” What exactly is that? For me it is the two hours of my son’s daily nap time, the snippets of time I find during the day while he reads and plays with his toys, and the time after he goes to bed. I’ve often referred to myself as “the naptime [...]

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How Jesus Frees Us to Love Our Neighbor

November 7, 2012 Devotional Mundane

by Gloria Furman A few years ago our family stayed in a church’s guesthouse for two wonderful, jet-lagged, rainy weeks. We always enjoy our visits to that city and look forward to the refreshing fellowship we have with our friends. Plus the tamales at the restaurant down the road from the church are to die [...]