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Ascension Day!
"Today is Ascension Day, and that means that it is a day of great joy for all who can believe that Christ rules the world and our lives."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison
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God's First Thought of the World
"The Sacrifice of the Son is God's first thought of the world."-Hans Urs Von Balthasar
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Converting a Vision of the World and of Life
"There is no point in converting people to Christ if they do not convert their vision of the world and of life, since Christ then becomes merely a symbol for all that we love and want already-without...
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Visions of Vocation
I consider Steven Garber to be a friend and mentor- the privilege of the last five years have in large part been due to my time spent with him in my doctor of ministry program. I cannot recommend...
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A part of growing up near Kansas City and following a small market baseball team like the KC Royals is that the lows are low and the highs are high. The Royals had not been to the MLB playoffs for 29...
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All Saints Day, . . . A Sacred Spin on the Dead
"Jesus said to her, 'I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?'"...
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Downtown KC Victory Parade Celebrating the Royals
This is how much the Royals first World Series triumph in thirty years means to the people of Kansas City. Estimates are now that 800,000 people came out for today's parade.
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A Royal CelebrationHey Kansas City, today was amazing. Relive the moments here - you'll be talking about this day for years to come. http://kmbc.tv/6185BP57bPosted by KMBC 9 News Kansas City on...
View ArticleHsu Prayer Newsletter, 7th Edition
Here is our most recent Prayer Newsletter to our prayer and financial supporters. Thank you for everyone's support and care of us and our work here in Vancouver. And, yes, spoiler alert,... it does...
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Christmas Eve Neighbourhood Noël Dinner and Service
"Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel (which means, God with us)."-Matt. 1:23We appreciate your prayers for our 2nd annual Christmas Eve Neighbourhood...
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Beware of the Phog : )
Lots of goodness here as over the holiday break I was able finally to take my family to Allen Fieldhouse, "the St. Andrews of College Basketball." My first experience with the historic Phog Allen...
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Donald Trump and the Evangelical Vote
There are some advantages I suppose to now living outside the U.S., after having been born and raised and having spent the first forty-two years of my life in the good ol' U.S. of A. For those familiar...
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"Missionary" as New Cultural Identity
"The new cultural identity of the church in the Western world is that of missionary. . . . This means that local churches will need to undergo a conversion-like experience that brings a complete change...
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Banal "Politics as Usual"
". . . American Christians too often find themselves in deep regret at the loss of the privileges of being the chaplains to power. The Religious Right in the United States grasps desperately for...
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Good Friday
“[In anticipation of the coming Christ], God's Shekinah suffers the exile of his people. . . . has become homeless, and wanders restlessly through the dust of this world’s streets."-Shekinah: The Home...
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The Firstfruits of a New Creation
"Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?"-Surprised to be alive, Sam addressing Gandalf in Return...
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Reading the Church
"In our fragmented, post-Christian culture, . . . what is demanded is a theology of orthopraxy more than orthodoxy. Again, this is not to dispense with the need for orthodoxy as a foundation for faith....
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Community: The Structure of Belonging
As the world rages, and as I believe I have been given a mandate to "go local" with love, to engage neighbours as a way of standing against the larger universal currents of evil that seem to abound,...
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