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When You’ve Been Hurt by the Church

ByThe Glorious Table March 12, 2021March 8, 2021

If you stay in church long enough, you’re going to experience conflict. You may be disillusioned by a particular denomination. A pastor might disappoint you. Decisions by church leaders will cause discord. Another church member will disturb you. It’s bound to happen, because the group of believers the Bible calls the “body of Christ” is…

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Don’t Leap Before You Look

ByThe Glorious Table February 24, 2021February 21, 2021

One opportunity virtual school has created for my teenage sons is the ability to step outside of “class” and walk into my home office to ask a question or share whatever thought crosses their mind. It doesn’t happen often, but the questions my sons wrestle with these days aren’t lighthearted. They wonder why some people…

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The Value of Mentorship

ByThe Glorious Table January 28, 2021January 23, 2021

Maybe it’s all the time spent at home this past year making me more reflective, but I’ve been thinking with gratitude lately about women who have mentored me, encouraged me, and helped me along in my life. I don’t know if I would have thought of them as “mentors” at the times when they were…

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Loving Our Global Neighbors and Our Neighbors Next Door

ByThe Glorious Table July 2, 2020July 2, 2020

A year ago, we made an unplanned local move. It was stressful, but we knew that in the long run, there would be a lot of benefits to our new rental house. We had to make such a quick decision that we didn’t even have time to think about our new neighbors; however since we’d…

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Churches Without Buildings

ByThe Glorious Table June 8, 2020June 7, 2020

My husband and I are planting a church in northwest Denver. As a church planter, I cannot fathom all of the residual effects the novel coronavirus will have on our society, but I do see some excellent learnings for the church in it already. If you have been around a church at all, most likely…

You Have the Power

ByThe Glorious Table May 30, 2020June 11, 2021

“The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself. Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of…