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• meanwhile, back in Germany (this makes my heart happy!)

  By derekmaul on November 8, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  Done right, nothing in this world has the power to love and to heal and to encourage like the church.

• when Jesus troubles our waters

  By derekmaul on November 7, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  what it takes is meeting Jesus, then responding to his invitation to live

• Enough with division! The Church needs to be a leader in reconciliation!

  By derekmaul on November 6, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  Maybe the most important missional imperative The Church must adopt should be that of leading America out of factionalism and division?

• “C” is for Commitment, and Communion, and Community

  By derekmaul on November 4, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Too tired to stay away…

• Four generations – “The Girls”

  By derekmaul on November 3, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  “There is nothing quiet so beautiful as a family, don’t you think?”

• stuck in the spiritual equivalent of CandyLand

  By derekmaul on November 2, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly—mere infants in Christ. I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it…. Read More ›

• Photo-highlights from a good week

  By derekmaul on November 1, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  “I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can see something of the future he has called you to share. So that you can see exactly what it is he is calling you to do,… Read More ›

• a quiet, still, love-saturated filling #PresbyteriansCryQuietly

  By derekmaul on October 31, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  we often dismiss other people’s experience of God when it does not look like our own

• “Pressed down, shaken together and running over”

  By derekmaul on October 30, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  I pray that these images will inspire and encourage you

• a timely word from scripture concerning arrogance and narcissism

  By derekmaul on October 29, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  People who are inclined to, “think highly of themselves” need to spend some time in the presence of these beautiful children

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