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MAKING ROOM AT THE INN

By Leila Evangelista Leave a Comment

Christmas is our day to celebrate Jesus’ birthday. But in the shuffle of the holiday season, the original intent of the holiday can also get swept up in holiday busy work, no matter how well-intended we are. But we can take out a page from the cultural traditions of Mexico to reflect upon this Christmas. […]

Filed Under: Culture & Creativity, Live Tagged With: Issue 5

BEING A GOOD SAMARITAN

By Leila Evangelista Leave a Comment

If someone were to sit down and contemplate the state of the world right now, it would be easy to find sadness, unfairness, and inexplicably awful things that can’t fully be comprehended. We have mass poverty, pandemic diseases, social injustice, gender inequality and political oppression, just to name a few ills. Then on top of […]

Filed Under: Grow, Practical Application Tagged With: Issue 5

HARBOR HOUSE

By Leila Evangelista Leave a Comment

Since 1972, Harbor House has worked with over 100,000 individuals in the San Antonio community of Oakland, California. The ministry began with a single person—schoolteacher and First Covenant Church member, Olive Freeman. Freeman began offering assistance to her students and their families, providing books, food, clothing, and educational tutoring out of the trunk of her […]

Filed Under: Give Back, Live Tagged With: Issue 6

DISASTER RELIEF

By Leila Evangelista Leave a Comment

Lately it feels like so much of the news has been filled with reports of natural disasters. In September 2009, there were ravaging typhoons, earthquakes, and tsunamis that hit parts of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, affecting countries like Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga, Burma, the Philippines, and Indonesia. Then early this year, a 7.0 […]

Filed Under: Community, Connect Tagged With: Issue 7

KNOW WHEN TO SPEAK

By Leila Evangelista Leave a Comment

When people want to give back to the community, looking for an organization to help support is often the first step. Giving time by volunteering at your local hospice or giving funds to a worthy organization is always needed. But a different route of giving back and pushing for change is through advocacy. The same […]

Filed Under: Give Back, Live Tagged With: Issue 7

ANNIE LOBERT AND HOOKERS FOR JESUS

By Leila Evangelista 1 Comment

Hookers for Jesus. Yes, you read the name correctly. Hookers for Jesus: a bold name, rivaling only the boldness of its endeavors and its fearless founder. Annie Lobért began the international, faith-based organization in January 2005 to address the realities of sex trafficking, sexual violence, and exploitation linked to pornography and the sex industry, “fishing” […]

Filed Under: Live, People Tagged With: Issue 4

BREAKING BREAD AND BREAKING BARRIERS IN SOUTH AFRICA

By Leila Evangelista Leave a Comment

My arrival in Durban, South Africa was a very particular brand of disorientation. Nothing seemed familiar. Rand. Paranoia. Koombis. Xhosa. The remnants of apartheid. Humidity. Food-stealing monkeys. All of it felt foreign. I decided to study abroad for one year in college to get some field research experience in another country. But underneath the academic […]

Filed Under: Community, Connect Tagged With: Issue 3

GOSPEL FOR ASIA

By Leila Evangelista 2 Comments

He was only a teenager when he answered God’s calling. Feeling an overwhelming, unconditional love for the physically and spiritually impoverished population of India, he stood on an elevated rock amongst a bustling Bangalore bus station. He was only 16 years old, skinny, too young to even be part of the mission teams that proselytized […]

Filed Under: Careers & Callings, Live Tagged With: Issue 3

LOVING ONE BY ONE

By Leila Evangelista Leave a Comment

Everywhere you turned there was something or someone that needed help. Everywhere there was a need,” explains Christine Plaza Bermudez. Wrapping one’s head around the very apparent needs of so many others at one time can be overwhelming for just one person, especially one who wants to make a difference. This is what Sherry Roberts, […]

Filed Under: Give Back, Live Tagged With: Issue 4

SENSITIVITY TOWARDS ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

By Leila Evangelista Leave a Comment

When I was younger, I had chronic stomach pains. At one point, the pain lasted for a full week without subsiding, seesawing between a sharp or dull pain. After countless X-rays and tests, doctors could only agree on one diagnosis: inconclusive results. The body is an amazing piece of work, functioning with complexity and beauty, […]

Filed Under: Grow, Practical Application Tagged With: Issue 4

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Instagram post 2035877065333865674_1560735556 "Welcome, everything is fine."
With these reassuring words, we are ushered into the premise of the television show The Good Place. The main character, Eleanor Shellstrop, is dead. Now, being received in a business office by an executive in a suit, she’s told, “In the afterlife, there’s a Good Place… and there’s a Bad Place. You’re in The Good Place.”
For me, as for many viewers, this raises a number of questions: What does actually happen after we die? Assuming many religions are correct in believing that there is some kind of Good Place to go, who is in charge of deciding who’s in and who’s out? What are The Good Place and The Bad Place really like? And finally, what do I have to do to make sure I end up in the one and not the other? || You can read more of @slimkeman article on The Good Place on our website #linkinbio. #thegoodplace #everythingisfine #heaven #heavensgate
Instagram post 2035228159973349566_1560735556 Have you heard the word "theology" thrown around and always wondered what it meant? @sclimk does a fabulous job explaining it in his latest article, "What is Theology & Why Do You Need It? #theology #jargon #lovinggodwithyourmind
Instagram post 1972629225719768400_1560735556 "The Sabbath should not be a rule to keep just for the sake of keeping. Having to “rest” should not keep you from helping others or doing things that are necessary – cooking, eating, showering, etc. The Sabbath is meant for rejuvenation and refreshment from the week’s work and our busy schedules and can allow us some down time to seek God in more meaningful ways, longer times of prayer or a renewed joy in seeking a fresh perspective from God and evaluating our week, goals, plans, dreams, or purpose." –Kelli Ward
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Instagram post 1969377145848707268_1560735556 Our next issue cycle is beginning tomorrow and we’d love to have you involved! We’re calling for new writers and submissions. Please check out our Editorial Calendar in our #linkinbio to get a good idea of our audience and what you might expect if you join our writing team. We look forward to working with you!
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Instagram post 1967158743858782718_1560735556 "God not only orchestrates the future—he also walks beside us in the present as a comforter, as a parent comforts a child in times of disappointment or frustration." – @bethany_kathleen in her article Calling Him "Father" || Please check out the link in our bio to read more of Bethany's wonderful words. .
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Instagram post 1964915217504114224_1560735556 "If we were to read the image of Jesus standing outside the church and knocking as a sign of their self
-sufficiency (and thus, feeling that they don’t need him), this also speaks very much against our North 
American image of the self-made man (or woman), where we are expected to be individualistic and not rely on anybody for anything." –Greg Whyte in Jesus Is Knocking. Check out the link in our bio to read more. .
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Instagram post 1906277571164260750_1560735556 "There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,‘and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.‘" –C.S. Lewis
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Instagram post 1904042798269739120_1560735556 "As part of the design of 
humanity, God gave us the 
power of choice, where we could choose to either love 
or reject him.
" –Greg Whyte in Ticket To Heaven?: Rethinking John 3:16
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Instagram post 1902593229786922586_1560735556 "Believing is not mere intellectual assent or a crisis confession at one time in our lives." –Greg Whyte in his article Ticket To Heaven? There's more in our latest issue!
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Instagram post 1901173998285477772_1560735556 "God (because of his love), refused to give up. He knew that the only way for things to become good again would be for the 
relationships broken in the beginning to be repaired and 
reconciled." –Greg Whyte in his article Ticket To Heaven? Read more from Greg in our latest issue!
Instagram post 1898969377907390455_1560735556 “Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they can never quite keep their promise. The longings which arise in us when we first fall in love, or first think of some foreign country, or first take up some subject which excites us, are longings which no marriage, no travel, no learning, can really satisfy.” –C.S. Lewis
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Instagram post 1893896066714077371_1560735556 "Deep down, we know that we are meant for something more than the proverbial journey." @jefffrelatable in his article Life Is Not About The Journey our Featured Article of the Week
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📷 by @tarynburkleo
Instagram post 1892446600580772807_1560735556 "When we love God, 
our lives become 
oriented in such a way that we let him purify us into the person he wants us to be. " @jefffrelatable in his article Life Is Not About The Journey our Featured Article of the Week #linkinbio
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Instagram post 1891027203412698105_1560735556 Check out our latest edition of New Identity Magazine - launched today! #linkinbio
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Instagram post 1885953582143744506_1560735556 "God’s violence is his response to what the Bible calls Sin - our rebellion against God’s direction and care that brings evil and death into the world. This mutiny leads to every injustice and oppression, every murderous thought and act, all hate and lies, and every twisting of God’s good design in creation. God made his world good, we rejected his design a long time ago, and we reject it still today in little and in big ways." @sclimk in his article Wrestling With A Violent God: Finding Hope In The Dark Places of Scripture our Featured Article of the Week - you can read more of his great article in our #linkinbio
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Instagram post 1883749190825118257_1560735556 "Prayer is designed to interrupt the chaotic rhythms of life. It brings us to the present moment and teaches us to slow down, breathe deep, and filter your life through a lens of gratitude. Prayer benefits the one praying, deepening your bond with God by bringing your thoughts, your will, and your desires in line with the purposes he has for you." @fredericklindsey | Check out more from Lindsey's IDENTIFY Column on prayer via the link our profile #linkinbio
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Instagram post 1882299740722142184_1560735556 "Talking to God is simple, but like any discipline (and prayer is a discipline), sometimes it can feel like a chore. To use a cliché, it’s like going to the gym: You may not want to go—you grumble at the idea of lifting that weight or running that mile. It’s hard. It’s uncomfortable. Sometimes it even hurts. But you know it’s good for you and you like the overall effect of working out. Day by day, as your muscles break down they become stronger, fat melts away, and you feel healthier from the inside out." @fredericklindsey || You can read more on prayer from Lindsey's column IDENTIFY in our #linkinbio
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Instagram post 1878675784881814091_1560735556 "Being lost simply means that someone, by their life, beliefs, and actions, does not know and love who God really is. It isn’t just a designator for someone outside of Christianity’s religious structures. It’s not just for people who don’t go to church. The most desperately lost person might call themselves a Christian and do all the things you might expect a Christian person to do, even while in their hearts they do not know God." –@sclimk You can read more about Who's Really "Lost"? in our Featured Article of the Week #linkinbio
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Instagram post 1877226067812167502_1560735556 "For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” –Luke 19:10 // Who is the "lost"? Check out our Featured Article of the Week by @sclimk #linkinbio
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