Blessed are you…

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A modern telling of the B-attitudes.. 140 characters at a time:

Blessed are those who don’t have it all together.

Blessed are those who have run out of strength, ideas, will power, resolve, or energy.

Blessed are those who ache because of how severely out of whack the world is.

Blessed are those stumble, trip, and fall in the same place again and again.

Blessed are those who on a regular basis have a dark day in which despair seems to be a step behind them wherever they go.

Blessed are you, for God is with you, God is on your side, God meets you in that place.

The gospel is the counter-intuitive, joyous, exuberant news that Jesus has brought the unending, limitless, stunning love of God to even us.

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Cereal

This week on the sbpodcast, we talk with Justin Snyder about his film company Abandon Films and how his life, faith and film intersect through his creative work (BTW – jealous of his job).

During the show, Justin shares some of the background behind this video:

Do you have a “roommate” that likes to invade your life and eat all your cereal? What do you do to get rid of these annoying “roommates.”

Videos from #thenines online

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The videos from #thenines conference are now available for viewing on demand.

You can view them via thenines.leadnet.org or on #thenines YouTube channel.
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Permission to Speak Freely

Art & Essays on Fear, Confession and Grace

I’m really looking forward to Anne Jackson’s (@flowerdust)new book, “Permission to Speak Freely.”

Over the last year or so she’s been gathering artwork, essays and other contributions from folks, all centered around the question…

What is one thing you feel you can’t say in church?
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With a little help for our friends

I was looking over the totals that have come in to help our friends beat foreclosure this week.

It’s encouraging to see.

Folks from 2 different countries, 5 different states, people that have never met my friends, are all pitching in to help in a time of need.

To help illustrate this, I put together a quick map highlighting the cities represented thus far.

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