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I grew up in a Christian home but started following Jesus when I went off to college at the very liberal University of Michigan. I got involved with Campus Crusade for Christ there and deepened my relationship with Jesus through bible studies and outreaching on campus. When I moved out to california in 2001, I [...]

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As I read yesterday’s devotional from My Utmost for His Highest entitled “What is a missionary?”, I saw this as a very appropriate guideline for Missionary Road and also how we as Christians see ourselves as followers of Jesus, whether we label it “missionary”, “disciple maker”, “worker”, etc in the Kingdom of God.
Jesus said to [...]

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As I’m 1000 miles away in Dallas, TX and I continue to read the stories and see the vivid pictures reporting on the wildfires throughout Southern California, my heart breaks for the people that have been displaced and the homes that have been destroyed.
What are we to do when calamity hits like this? How should [...]

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The topic of “signs and wonders” is one that has been intriguing me more in the last year than ever before in my life. I have visited a church where an an older lady of a friend of mine had her lips anointed with oil and then began to speak in tongues and interpret these [...]

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I love reading ChristianityToday.com, because of the rich articles that not only encourage me in my faith, but get me thinking more about how to live missionally and to be a more effective missionary in the world. Christianity Today has launched a project to ask questions about culture, mission, and the gospel, as well as [...]

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 ”Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world,” writes James 1:27
How do you think we are doing as a nation to embody this verse in the American Church today. The Author in [...]

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I just came across the blog for Voice of the Martyrs and the Persecuted Church. This is a great resource that you can subscribe to on their site to stay informed with what is going on with Christian persecution around the globe.
It will keep us focused on the cost of following Jesus and the call [...]

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