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Pastor Dean Kurpjuweit
When one morning a week just isn't enough, check out what Dean has to say on his blog!
http://deankurpjuweit.blogspot.com/Cori Fraser
Cori's blog is a reflection on her life: a life all women can relate to, as she balances work, being a mom, a wife, a good friend, Stampin' Up!, and in the midst of it, working out her relationship with Christ.
http://foodjournalcorifraser.blogspot.comAdventures with Brenda
Brenda keeps us updated on what is happening with her in Chili Island!
Adventures with BrendaRecommended Blogs
Stephen Berg
Local blogger Stephen Berg gives his insights into the inner city, mercy, and Christian spirituality through this thought provoking blog, Grow Mercy. In his words...
"Grow Mercy is about non-violence, creative kidness, and compassion for the victimized. Grow Mercy sees beauty as the pulse of theology. Grow Mercy is about learning mercy through modelling a non-sacrificial, non-scapegoating, and non-victimizing way of being. Another way of putting this is that it's about desiring the wholly gratuitous Jesus. The Jesus we meet in...'blessed are the merciful, the peacemakers, the poor, the guileless...' Grow Mercy is about undergoing the immensity of a Love that has no residue of wrath, no desire to be sacrificed to, no divine ego to maintain, no need for our reflexive worship. It's about trying to work this all out and give it something of an articulate frame."
www.growmercy.orgDonald Miller
Donald Miller was born in Houston, Texas. When he was twenty-one he traveled across America with a friend in a Volkswagen van. They ran out of money in the Pacific Northwest where they lived in the woods, in the Cascade Mountains of central Oregon. Always fascinated by stories, Don wrote about this journey in a travel memoir called Through Painted Deserts. He would later go on to work in the publishing industry, bringing other people's stories into the world. When he started his own company, he was once again without money and so wrote another book called Blue Like Jazz, which, more than two years after its release, would arrive on the New York Times Bestsellers List where it spent more than 40 weeks. While writing a book about fatherlessness, Don started a mentoring program in Portland that hopes to mentor more than a million fatherless kids across America. That initiative led Barack Obama to invite Don onto the Presidential Task Force on Fatherhood and Healthy Families. Don lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
donmilleris.comSerena Woods
I write for people who are about to lose their faith. I write for the fallen. I write to shake the rigor mortis religious by their shoulders. I revisit my darkest days to find those who are still there, then I show them how to get out. The scripture is a lot more scandalous than you're used to hearing. I'll tell you what I see. I'll write from the depths of me.
www.graceisforsinners.comJohn Ortberg
John Ortberg, is passionate about "spiritual formation," which is how people become more like Jesus. His teaching brings Scripture alive and invariably includes practical applications and warm humor. John is the author of many books, including "If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat" and "The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Growth for Ordinary People", and his latest book, "The Me I Want To Be". He has recently partnered with Monvee, an online spiritual assessment tool that helps individuals and churches create hand crafted spiritual growth plans. John is Senior Pastor at Menlo Park Prebyterian Church, a in church Northern California.
johnortberg.comTimothy Keller
In 1989 Dr. Timothy J. Keller, his wife and three young sons moved to New York City to begin Redeemer Presbyterian Church. In 20 years it has grown to meeting for five services at three sites with a weekly attendance of over 5,000. Redeemer is notable not only for winning skeptical New Yorkers to faith, but also for partnering with other churches to do both mercy ministry and church planting. The Redeemer Church Planting Center is working to help establish hundreds of new multi-ethnic congregations throughout the city and other global cities in the next decades.
redeemercitytocity.comDebra Dean Murphy
Debra Dean Murphy is an Assistant Professor of Religion and Christian Education at West Virginia Wesleyan College. She likes books, movies, music, art, politics - and likes to think and write about how religion intersects all of these arenas. She serves on the board (and is an avid fan) of The Ekklesia Project.
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