The Prodigal Planet (A Thief in the Night Part 4)
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What Does Ongoing Sin Say About Me One of the most common questions a Christian can ask is also one of the most troubling: What does my ongoing sin say ab...
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When I (Still) Don’t Desire God It’s been fifteen years since I wrote When I Don’t Desire God: How to Fight for Joy . I wrote it because hundreds of p...
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every day’s a bad day - how ecclesiastes taught me to enjoy life After decades of ministry, what is one piece of advice I wish I had received as a young woman? Study the book of Eccles...
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host as you are - practicing hospitality as a family Love God and love your neighbor . This is the Butterfield family motto. It makes us humble, messy, and on the frontlin...
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how to love people you don’t like “Nothing makes me more unsure whether I will persevere until the end like spending too long in his presence.” Months ha...
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learning the lyrics of god A preacher once told me, “Although I often read a psalm to people in the hospital, I would never consider preaching fro...
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ready to commit, slow to compare - a recipe for real community Months ago a young couple visited our church, and we had them over to our home for lunch. As we ate and conversed over ...
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walk in his providence - how god opens doors for you When the master in Jesus’s parable gave talents to his servants and went away, two got busy multiplying their master’s ...
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why god loves people who hate each other The church is filled with lots of dangerously different people. There are rich and poor, old and young, male and femal...
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why join a church One of the most counter-cultural things you can do is become an engaged member of a faithful local church. In our flig...
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