Abigail Dodds writes an article that directly addresses women, but speaks to the experience of every Christian. She contends that increasing age should represent a growth in more that the number of candles on our birthday cakes. Now, instead of growing old, we are growing new. The mature Christian woman is the one who has …

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I’ve been dabbling a little bit in personal fitness for a while now, so I’ve got lots of respect for those who exercise. This article by Connor Gwin on Mockingbird interacts with popular thought about why gyms and exercise fill a space in some modern lives that used to be filled by church. It wants …

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Ed Stetzer writes a post about encouraging involvement in small group ministries: Through teaching biblically, promoting incessantly, and leading organizationally, we can encourage our brothers and sisters to get involved with small group ministries. +++ On promotion: Promote it incessantly People need to hear about small groups all the time. The more you can promote …

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Dan Darling points out that if every week at church aims to be a mountain top experience, those who are in the valleys are going to be left behind. …our spiritual lives are formed by a lifetime of small moments. We grow, not from one big epic church service, but by a series of weekly, …

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