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Thank God for Evolution
Here is a spoken word poem about slavery, genocide, and hope by Micah Bournes. Micah is a poet and signer from Southern California. He works mostly with the theme of Justice and how that fits in with theology. This video is very thought provoking and well done. In some places it is difficult to hear,…
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Anticipating Ghana
In a little over a month and a half I will be on my way to Ghana, where I will be studying for the fall semester. I am currently preparing myself for what promises to be a life-changing time in my life. I once heard somebody compare preparing for a new experience of life like…
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Global Body
While I was in Panama a couple weeks ago our group held devotions every night. I was given the privilege to lead devotions on the last night. Upon preparing for this time, I wanted to tie some experiences and feelings we had all shared together as group durring the week. I decided to share 1 Corinthians 12:12-26. The following…
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Reflections on Panama
Last week I traveled down to Panama with Calvin College’s chapter of Global Business Brigades. We spent a week in rural eastern Panama, specifically in the Piriati Embera community, providing microfinance consulting to families and microenterprises. My group and I focused on three individuals who were looking to improve their entrepreneurial experience.
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Sabbath and Story
This past weekend I had the privilege and the opportunity to attend the Midwest YoungLife Staff Conference. The theme for the weekend was discipleship. This theme was enriching in many ways. We listened to a number of speakers present on their thoughts about discipleship. For the next few blog posts, I will be summarizing these presentations and…
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Plant and Water… Grow
Spring is coming. Today was warm, sunny, and even smalled like spring. I find it amazing that I have come across the words and thought during this emerging spring season of rebirth and growth. I am currently reading the book “Blue Like Jazz” by Donald Miller (honestly the main reason I started reading it was…
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Thoughts on KONY 2012
A few thoughts about the Invisible Children, KONY 2012 campaign.
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The Spiritual Celebration of Brokenness
For some reason God is having me reflect on the spirituality of brokenness as of late. It is an interesting concept and I have been learning a lot about celebrating the spirituality of brokenness. Brokenness is something as humans we are all to familiar with. But because of God’s grace we are able to celebrate brokenness. Brokenness is…
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Jeffrey R. Bloem 