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Agents of Peace
One of the key aspects of missional theology is practicing an incarnational lifestyle. This means we need to stick around.
Continue ReadingBuilding Community on Central Street
This fall, our One-Eighty Lodi Central Street residents, Mikaela, Alejandra, and Andres, pulled off something pretty special together.
Continue ReadingLineage
Throughout the Bible, we see whole chapters detailing the lineages of kings and patriarchs. Even in passing, we read how important familial lines are.
Continue ReadingYellow and Blue
Before Jesus arrived on the scene as a newborn in a manger, the people of Israel expected God would work in them, through them, and for them
Continue ReadingChildlike Sense of Fairness
When it comes to ideas of what is fair, kids are often seen as inherently selfish. A ten-year study published in 2017 tells a different story.
Continue ReadingResurrection Tree
In his book Mercy Streets, Taylor Field shares a story about a tree in the meager backyard of their ground floor tenement apartment.
Continue ReadingChildren Of
To be a “child of” is to point to your lineage or to something that defines you. We see this baked into many of our surnames.
Continue ReadingGiven to Us
In today’s passage, Isaiah tells us how that comes to be: a child, born to us; a son given freely to us.
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