hospitality

Cruciform Hospitality

March 22, 2013 Showing Hospitality
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by Priya Samuel I come from a culture where high moral standards, obedience to parents, hospitality, modesty, a wife’s submission to her husband, and other things were traditions passed down from generation to generation. For example, when it comes to hospitality, I jump right into action like a trained poodle. Too often I have the [...]

Tagged as: 1 Peter 1, culture, grace, hospitality

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Jesus is the True and Better Host

February 21, 2013 Showing Hospitality
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[Excerpt taken from Glimpses of Grace by Gloria Furman copyright ©2013. Used by permission of Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers, Wheaton, Il 60187, www.crossway.org.] Jesus is the True and Better Host I might try a number of strategies to fix my greed/pride/selfish­ness problem, but true repentance is elusive in my self-motivated strategies [...]

Tagged as: gospel, hospitality, Trinitarianism

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Showing Hospitality Despite Our Messes

August 13, 2012 Showing Hospitality
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by Britney Hamm “He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?”-Romans 8:32 An unexpected knock on the door. What? I’m not expecting anyone! The house is a mess! How much can I pick up on my [...]

Tagged as: 1 Peter 1, hospitality, Mark 10, Romans 8

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Sharing is caring

March 9, 2012 Showing Hospitality
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by Gloria Furman “Someday when we have a guest room,” I used to say to myself, “we’ll be able to take care of people.” But then God used some new friends to help change my paradigm for hospitality. These new friends heard that we would be traveling up to their city on a regular basis. [...]

Tagged as: 1 Timothy 6, Ephesians 2, hospitality, sharing

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Overcoming 3 Hurdles to Hospitality, part 1

November 18, 2011 Showing Hospitality
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Donita’s house is always full of people—friends stopping by to say hello, young ladies coming over for discipleship group, houseguests, and not to mention four squirrel-y little children with the most precious Aussie/South African accents you’ve ever heard. Her friends often wonder, “How do you do it?” The answer Donita gives amazes people. So we [...]

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Tagged as: hospitality, Matthew 5, pride

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