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The pervasive passivity among Christian men leaves a huge gap in the church where men are absent and women are having to continually step up and lead out. Konnor shares how this gap leaves unhealthy churches, how men can step up and bring flourishing to the church when leaving out of biblical masculinity.
We have all tasted the bitterness left in our mouths from great disappointment. It’s easy to remember and stirs in us the impulse to avoid it at all cost. What do we do when the floods of disappointment are overwhelming and the muscle to rejoice is fatigued? Eric writes how the valley of disappointment can lead to worship when we are honest about the unmet expectations of life.
Jess shares a poem to highlight how often we let the world around us tell us who we are instead of clinging to who our Creator says we are.
The feeling of loneliness aches through every human heart. COVID multiplied those feelings as we all quarantined and isolated from one another. Jordan explores this feeling through the lens of the Gospel and how we can be people who pursue the One who satisfies the depths of our loneliness by drawing near through a relationship with him.
Our value, our identity, and our worth come from Jesus and Jesus alone. Although, how come it’s so easy to live into what the world or the broken Christian culture tells us to live into? Chelsy shares with us how we can identify those bad habits and how we can cling to something so much better- Jesus Christ himself.