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Probably the most important and yet challenging discipline to which the Christian is called is to love with a kind of love that “bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things” (1 Corinthians 13:7). This just sounds crazy, on the face of it.  What in the...

The following report was sent to us by Pastor Thomas Ongasa: In 2012, God called me to step down as president of a local mission/conference faith-based ministry. It took me three years of struggle to say yes to the call. While I was struggling, God sent a team of 16...

Love Never Fails Murphy’s Law states that everything that can go wrong will. I don’t think it’s true, but the law seems to describe 2020 quite well. As if a global pandemic wasn’t enough, we’ve faced murder hornets, wildfires, political tension, and economic uncertainty. In the words of one witty...

I'm not a Republican and I'm not a Democrat. I'm not a conservative and I'm not a liberal. I’m a follower of Jesus, whose “kingdom,” He explicitly said, “is not of this world” (John 18:36). His politics are not of this world’s common order, that is. In fact, even a...

“What is that? It smells like something died in here,” my friend bellowed after we got in my car. I’d definitely noticed an odor coming from my car’s trunk before that weekend (though I don’t remember how long I’d been aware of it). However, after my friend Diane and I...

Love Does Not Rejoice in the Failures of Others. My best friend and I were trying to master a challenging skateboard maneuver. The goal was to dip down from the shallow end of an empty pool into the deep end, shoot up for a split second of air, grind along...

Catherine was raised in a loving Christian family of four in Morogoro, Tanzania. She was the only child in the family who had the opportunity to receive higher education at the University of Dar es Salaam. It may be painful to know that Catherine ended up as a sex worker...

There are traits and talents latent within you that can only be brought to active expression when you are in healthy, honest relationships. By remaining in destructive relationships, you are suppressing your unborn potential. I recently posted the above idea on my Facebook page. In response, a number of people...

Love Believes the Best of Others When you see _ _ NNER, what’s the first word your brain makes? BANNER? TANNER? Heaven forbid, FUNNER? In his book Talking with Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell writes about a study in which participants were given a list of words with letters missing. They were...

Amina grew up in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania under the care of her loving parents. In university, she pursued computer science. Upon completion, Amina was hired at Tanzania’s Ministry of Labor headquarters in Dar es Salaam. Life as an employee was great. She quickly formed friendships with her colleagues. Among...

Love Keeps No Record of Wrongs Did you know that God practices a voluntary form of amnesia? It’s true. The only One who knows everything about everything chooses to block certain memories from His mind. “For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,” God graciously says, “and I will remember...

Growing up in earthquake territory, I was keenly aware that while no one knew when, everyone anticipated “the big one.” Earthquake drills in school, tremors, and even actual midnight earthquakes kept the apprehension alive. I always drove a little faster over the freeway bypass that dropped right over the San...