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Make your life your mission!

makeyourlifeMake Your Life Your Mission and Your Mission Your Life
Matthew 28:20 and 1 Cor 9:19-23 (especially The Message version)

PART I – Matthew 28:20
Therefore go and make disciples…
Which of the verbs is in the indicative?  We think …

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Dreaming in the Day (1 Samuel 1, Matthew 7:7-11, John 17)

dreamsGrace’s Story

Once upon a time, there was a man named Elkanah.  He was born at a time when men could have more than one wife.  This was often to protect women because they had no status in society.  Elkanah …

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When Helping Hurts: Alleviating Poverty Without Hurting the Poor

when helping hurtsWhen Helping Hurts: Alleviating Poverty Without Hurting the Poor

by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert

One of our book assignments for missionary training was to read the book, When Helping Hurts. Have you ever thought that when you give …

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I believe God made me for a purpose, but He also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure”. Eric Liddell

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Do you know there is no one like you on this planet?

Do you know no one has ever been like you in this existence?

You may think and tell me “Fabio, now you are exaggerating. …

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Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. Mother Teresa

We live in a very selfish society. Everything is about “me, me, me!”.
“Me” is first. “Me” is the priority. “Me” comes before anything!

“Me” is sometimes even before my wife, my communication with my daughter, my son, my friendship …

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Journey of Christianity II (Read Part I written on August 09, 2013)

subversionbonhoffer“What is at stake is by no means whether our German members of congregations can still tolerate church fellowship with the Jews. It is rather the task of Christian preaching to say: here is the church, where Jew and German …

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Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. May those who love you be secure. Psalm 122: 6

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The Rede Globo, or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network. A few months ago, I watched a very interesting interview through one of its programs, the Milenio.

Mosab Hassan Yousef is a Palestinian and son …

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“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

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Very often we face our reality and we cannot find the correct answer for our deep and sincere questions.

A young mother may ask herself where God was when she lost her baby. A responsible father …

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How many “Samaritans” have you met recently?

How many “Samaritans” have you met recently? Give and it will come back to you – sometimes in a very literal sense! A friend of a friend found out she was pregnant. Then, 8 weeks later, she found out she …

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Please don’t let me die…” Hugo Chavez

chavez“I don’t want to die. Please don’t let me die…” Hugo Chavez.

These were the very last words he spoke. His words circulated and were announced by radio, TV, newspapers, magazines, and the Internet all around the world. He was …

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