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"Welcome, everything is fine." With these reassuri

"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

Have you heard the word "theology" thrown around a

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

"The Sabbath should not be a rule to keep just for

"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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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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"God not only orchestrates the future—he also wa

"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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"If we were to read the image of Jesus standing ou

"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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"There are only two kinds of people in the end: th

"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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"As part of the design of humanity, God gave us t

"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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"Believing is not mere intellectual assent or a cr

"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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"God (because of his love), refused to give up. He

"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!

“Most people, if they had really learned to look

“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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"Deep down, we know that we are meant for somethin

"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

"When we love God, our lives become oriented in

"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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Check out our latest edition of New Identity Magaz

Check out our latest edition of New Identity Magazine - launched today! #linkinbio
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"God’s violence is his response to what the Bibl

"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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"Prayer is designed to interrupt the chaotic rhyth

"Talking to God is simple, but like any discipline

"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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"Being lost simply means that someone, by their li

"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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"For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the l

"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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