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December 24, 2015
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Devotions

Hope in Anticipation

by Adam Adams
…ore I moved away in 2013, the most touching experiences for me within this community had come from joining in the preparation, the longing, the hope, and ultimately the reunion of long separated family members. That part of the story remains unfinished, as many friends continue to wait for their family’s restoration. There is a time period of hopeful anticipation when refugees finally know their family abroad has the documentation needed to join t…
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April 20, 2015
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Essays

The Diversity Question

by Howard Schaap
…ore. Yes, this God’s-eye-view is hopeful and the reality of our calling is comforting, but why not keep the New Testament reality in mind now? The fact that Paul tells us in Galatians 3:28 that “here is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus” means that a diverse vision of the kingdom of God was breaking into our world already today. Caveat: Social satires like South Park and others have also ta…
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February 5, 2020
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Essays

Curiosity: Our Key to the Wonders of Faith

by Carlye Gomes
…real concern Steve was bringing up? I wonder if Steve might have been more open to Christianity had his pastor’s answer began with the phrase, “I don’t know, but…” …but let’s grab lunch with your parents and talk about it. …but let’s read a book, together, that might address that question. …but who else can we invite into this conversation? With my career in youth ministry for the past six years, one of the major things I’ve come to discover about…
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January 15, 2018
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Should Christians Call out Sin in Others?

by April Fiet
…biases. And ultimately, we need to have a relationship with the person built around trust. In the absence of these things, the answer is almost always no. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-big-questions/201108/we-see-in-others-what-we-fear-in-ourselves  â†©…
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April 15, 2016
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Essays

Intentional Living

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…hat Jesus’ name can be proclaimed. God has brought me and my family to the community of Sioux Center, Iowa, and the campus of Dordt College to join in his movement here. His call has brought with it demanding obedience and sacrifice; however, it has reinvigorated my passions, my vision, and my heart. God has instilled within me a spirit of intentionality, of which I continue to investigate and learn more about each day. In my ministry with student…
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May 5, 2020
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The Clarity of Covid-19

by Caleb Schut
…post-corona population more fluent in video conferencing, gatherings will defer to online platforms. There are ecological and economic benefits worth celebrating. But, the church will rediscover the value of being together in person. What I wrote two months ago: “The future of the church addresses loneliness. People have never been lonelier.” If it was true two months ago, it is certainly true now. The past couple decades gave us the terms loneli…
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June 29, 2022
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Teacher Flexibility and the New Normal

by Sheila Mulder
…and instructional design. Schools were implementing professional learning communities, common formative assessments, and differentiation. While these were important goals and ideas, the pandemic widened the achievement gap in students, so they became essential. According to MAP NWEA, student achievement lagged in post-pandemic growth. High achievers seemed to be on target with growth goals pre-pandemic and low achievers seems to lag pre-pandemic…
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April 24, 2018
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Reading in Context: Zacchaeus and the Economics of Salvation

by Benjamin Lappenga
…fascinating moment in Luke’s presentation of Jesus’ ministry: what will become of someone who is all of these things? The answer comes when Zacchaeus is given a chance to present Jesus with his economic practices, which Jesus evaluates according to whether a person acts consistently as a child of Abraham. John the Baptist announces that “God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham” (3:8), and then tells the people that what it m…
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June 23, 2016
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Devotions

Sharing the Gospel Well

by Nathan Tintle
…a large herd of swine was feeding; and the demons begged Jesus to let them enter these. So he gave them permission. Then the demons came out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned. When the swineherds saw what had happened, they ran off and told it in the city and in the country. Then people came out to see what had happened, and when they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom…
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December 30, 2016
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The Top 10 iAt Articles for 2016

by Liz Moss
…rt also encouraged us to sit and really listen to the marginalized in your community and to stand in the gap by educating, advocating and combating subtle racism. Christmas in Nigeria International accounting and business administration student, Matthew Ojo, gives his perspective on how Christmas is celebrated in his home country of Nigeria, one of the most ethnically diverse countries in Africa. Ojo effectively describes the ways Nigerians prepar…
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December 9, 2020
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Whole People, Wholly Reliant on Jesus

by Chandra Crane
…handra Crane. Used by permission of InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, IL. www.ivpress.com Kat Chow, interview with Elizabeth Rule, “So What Exactly is ‘Blood Quantum’?,” Code Switch, National Public Radio, February 9, 2018, www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/02/09/583987261/so-what-exactly-is-blood-quantum.  â†© All interview quotations as well as quotations from survey responses were gathered by the author throughout 2018 and 2019, and are cited…
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January 22, 2020
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Culture

Shows that Shape Us: The Office

by Justin Bailey
…It Was Made for and Originally Aired on an Old-School Broadcast Network. Oh, the Irony,” Chicagotribune.com, accessed December 21, 2019, https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/tv/ct-mov-netflix-the-office-0705-20190703-fjlo4pkt5jb7llpo2aixl7o2pe-story.html.  â†©…
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October 16, 2018
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Seared and Bleared, Smudged and Smelly

by Dave Schelhaas
…) for their CORE program? What does it mean to be a good Steward? Excellent article Dave! Not an Ostrich Try this link the other one messed up: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.livescience.com/3751-global-warming-chill-planet.html…
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March 23, 2022
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Podcast

Podcast: RENEWING – Feature Conversation: Jessica Hooten Wilson

by Justin Ariel Bailey
…Georges Bernanos Other authors mentioned in our conversation: C.S. Lewis George MacDonald Randy Boyagoda Walker Percy Flannery O’Connor Dr. Wilson’s website: https://jessicahootenwilson.com/ Follow Jessica Hooten Wilson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HootenWilson Kelly Latimore ‘s “literary icons”: https://kellylatimoreicons.com/…
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April 14, 2017
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Devotions

The Compassion of the Cross

by April Fiet
…The ministry of Jesus—from his humble birth to his death on the cross—was defined by compassion. The word compassion means “to suffer with” or “to suffer together.” Jesus suffered for us, and He suffered with us. “Surely he has borne our infirmities and carried our diseases.” And nowhere do we see Jesus’ ministry of compassion more clearly than on the cross, where he was willing to suffer with us even to the point of death. He was willing to ente…
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February 16, 2017
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Devotions

God’s Call to Social Justice

by Amber Maples
…person is deserving of our considerations and, thus, acceptable within our communities. But God’s command speaks to a different position, and this is one of remembering our own plight. “You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt” (Exodus 22:21, ESV]. Perhaps God is warning us, we who so often claim the privileged security that we experience in community to be our right, to return to gratitude for t…
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September 27, 2017
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Devotions

Be Like a Child

by David Tassell
…he put among them, 3 and said, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Whoever becomes humble like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5 Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.   This passage is one that can truly be used as a weapon against a person’s faith. For a person eager to know how to “enter the kingdom of heaven,” the call to “become lik…
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January 5, 2016
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Essays

In Your Neighborhood

by Jen Sandbulte
…they have texted or snap chatted inappropriate photos of themselves, which come back to haunt them. Most of these girls are free in a physical sense, but in bondage because of lies and manipulation, because of fear for their families, etc. The following statistics from trafficking.org help us understand the magnitude of the problem in the United States. Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking in the United States: There are 100,000 to 300,000 underage girl…
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August 30, 2017
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Gender and Authority: The Legacy of Sibling Rivalry

by Chandra Crane
…ariety of responses brought up many questions for me: Where does authority come from, and how do we know who has it? How can we engage in the task of Christian love and truth-telling while online? Am I hopelessly biased because Tish is a friend? What does Christian friendship look like? What about discipleship and leadership? What is Biblical, healthy use of authority? And then, one theme of questions regarding authority struck me: Who has the aut…
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May 28, 2015
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Civil War Staff Rides

by Paul Fessler
…also read it while walking the battlefield yourself. Secondly, you should examine a free website, History Animated, that has animated maps and shortened readings for every major Civil War battlefield. Though relatively straightforward and not graphically impressive like an XBOX game, these maps are well annotated with background and details from some of the most important histories written on the subject. Watching the troops move on the battlefie…
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September 6, 2017
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Gender & Authority: Finding Doxological Authority in the Church

by April Fiet
…rrison Warren wrote about the lack of authority and accountability when it comes to online theological content, and, on the one hand, I resonated with her words. Authority and accountability are important to me. And yet, I have wondered what authority might look like in this digital world. Does it look like it used to? Can it look like it has in the past? It is almost as though we are trying to figure out how to convert the analog authority struct…
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December 2, 2016
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Can a Fat Person Be Made in the Image of God?

by Sarah Vander Plaats
…e!” This thin, athletic friend and several of her Facebook friends held an online conversation in the comment section of the response throughout the day, in which they shared condemnations of people that they called lazy, parents who “abused” their children by making them fat, and a nation full of selfish, overweight people. I watched from behind my screen, eating up the condemnation from people I knew and respected. I watched and feasted on their…
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June 30, 2020
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Grounded

by Dawn Berkelaar
…ible. My husband is like this; he loves to garden, and time outside is his default way to spend free time. I am not like that. After spending time outside, I come in feeling refreshed and renewed–but I do not instinctively head outdoors on a regular basis. Maybe it is because books and screens are easier. It is probably more because I get distracted by busy thoughts and internal pressure to be productive. Perhaps you can relate? When we found ours…
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March 19, 2015
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Christian Civility

by Erin Olson
…be taught and improved. Mouw says” when we break out of the bonds of self-centeredness, entering into the experiences of other people, we come closer to fulfilling God’s purposes for human beings.”2 Mouw also encourages us to be curious as we are in dialogue with those who are in our lives. He says “we ought to want to become familiar with the experiences of people who are different from us simply out of a desire to understand the length and bread…
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December 3, 2020
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Advent: Waiting for Hope

by Caleb Schut
…ell as fully as possible the inner and outer events of our lives. It is to enter our lives with open eyes, ears, and hands so that we really know what is happening. Patience is an extremely difficult discipline precisely because it counteracts our unreflective impulse to flee or to fight. I wonder, this year, if a more realistic word of encouragement to the church and to the world is simply: be patient. If you are not overflowing with hope in this…
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