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Valuing Christian Community: Join Us at the CGN International Ministry Conference Christian Living

Valuing Christian Community: Join Us at the CGN International Ministry Conference

Valuing, gerund or present participle Consider (someone or something) to be important or beneficial; have a high opinion of . . . Undoubtedly, Jesus’ followers…
Bruce Zachary
Bruce ZacharyApril 24, 2025
Announcing the 2024 CGN International Conference! Hope, Suffering, and Glory: Studies in 1 Peter AnnouncementsConferences

Announcing the 2024 CGN International Conference! Hope, Suffering, and Glory: Studies in 1 Peter

Join us for the 2024 CGN International Conference from June 23-26, 2024, at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa. This year's theme, “Hope, Suffering, and Glory: Studies…
Calvary Global Network
Calvary Global NetworkApril 2, 2024
What Happened in 2020 Has Served to Advance the Gospel Discipleship

What Happened in 2020 Has Served to Advance the Gospel

2020 was a year filled with difficulty, frustration, tension, and sorrow, to the point where people could not wait for it to be over. As…
Nick Cady
Nick CadyJanuary 16, 2021
How to Rejoice Always in Ministry Christian LivingMinistry & Leadership

How to Rejoice Always in Ministry

"Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice" (Philippians 4:4). What kind of wild man tells a group of people to rejoice at…
Nate Holdridge
Nate HoldridgeSeptember 9, 2020
Layoffs, Furloughs, and the Walk of Faith Christian LivingMinistry & Leadership

Layoffs, Furloughs, and the Walk of Faith

I had to make a phone call last week that I didn’t want to make. A call that many have had to make over the…
Josh Sorensen
Josh SorensenMay 1, 2020
Unforeseen Blessing in Confinement Culture

Unforeseen Blessing in Confinement

As a free-spirited extrovert, I fill my cup by being around people. The thought of being locked in my house by governmental mandate goes against…
Becky Dente
Becky DenteMarch 25, 2020
Hope in Troubling Times: Peace within the Global Pandemic Culture

Hope in Troubling Times: Peace within the Global Pandemic

"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear" (Psalm 46:1–2a). As most of us would agree,…
Brian Brodersen
Brian BrodersenMarch 24, 2020
For Everything There is a Season Christian Living

For Everything There is a Season

The Bible tells us in Ecclesiastes that life is made up of seasons: “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter…
Jody Ponce
Jody PonceSeptember 18, 2018
Isobel Kuhn: Memories of a Lisu Church Family in China History & Holidays

Isobel Kuhn: Memories of a Lisu Church Family in China

"'Pebbles in a brook polish one another'"—thank God for the pebbles of His Lisu Church." So wrote Isobel Kuhn, who with her husband John spent…
Debbie Alnutt
Debbie AlnuttAugust 8, 2018
Don’t Stop Crying Out to God Christian Living

Don’t Stop Crying Out to God

The story of the blind beggar, found in Luke 18 is one that has recently had a powerful impact on my attitude toward prayer. The…
Jody Ponce
Jody PonceJune 6, 2018
Making Sense of the Unfathomable Christian Living

Making Sense of the Unfathomable

"When I remember God, then I am disturbed; when I sigh, then my spirit grows faint. Selah. You have held my eyelids open; I am…
Rob Dingman
Rob DingmanMay 24, 2018
Why I am Thankful for My Experience with Panic Attacks Part 2 Christian Living

Why I am Thankful for My Experience with Panic Attacks Part 2

My last article traced an introduction to my experience with panic attacks and this second part closes with further reflections on why I am (unexpectedly)…
Sarah Yardley
Sarah YardleyMay 18, 2018
Why I Am Thankful for My Experience with Panic Attacks Part 1 Christian Living

Why I Am Thankful for My Experience with Panic Attacks Part 1

My panic attacks first started at the beginning of the summer of 2017, before I embarked on my study of theology. After 33 years of…
Sarah Yardley
Sarah YardleyMay 2, 2018
Is God Listening? Christian Living

Is God Listening?

“O You who hear prayer, to You all flesh will come” (Psalm 65:2). I am so thankful for the character of the Living God! He…
Angie Nelson
Angie NelsonJanuary 31, 2018
Three Key Steps in the ART of Letting God Lead Christian LivingMinistry & Leadership

Three Key Steps in the ART of Letting God Lead

Recently I was given the great privilege of seeing some of the fruit from the youth ministry I pioneered over 15 years ago while speaking…
Joey Rozek
Joey RozekJanuary 30, 2018
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