Take the Community challenge

Posted by Pete Mueller | Jun 20, 2011

Take the Community challenge:

• What are you struggling with today? What is bringing you joy? Who else knows the details of this? Unpack the phrase: “Be somebody with someone.”
• An African proverb states, “Alone I have seen many wonderful things, none of which are true.” Why is it essential to read the Bible and experience the Christian faith in community with others?
• React to this observation by Basil Pennington: “We do not readily fit together. We are like a bunch of porcupines trying to huddle together for warmth, who are always driven apart out of fear …
  
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Born again: earth and water

Posted by Pete Mueller | Oct 22, 2010

One week ago tragedy was transformed into joy as thirty-three Chilean miners were hoisted up and out of a chamber where they had spent the previous 69 days.  As the mother of the youngest miner watched her 19-year-old son emerge from the rescue capsule, she remarked that it was like watching him "being born again."

What a great snapshot of the Christian life.  The Hero-God doesn't care how long it takes or how much it will cost  He works persistently until he pulls us up out of the chamber where we have been separated from Light and …

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