Tag: Love

• Planting a Church Where It’s Illegal for Churches to Gather

  

  If you would have told me this would have been my life, I might have naturally thought we were talking about being in some foreign context; maybe one militantly opposed to the Gospel because of the country’s animistic or communistic background. Never in my life would I have thought we were talking about Canada. Yet,…

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  July 6, 2022

  2022, July 2022, Neighbors

  1 Peter 2:12, 1 Peter 4:4-5, 1 Thessalonians 2:8, 1 Timothy 2:2-6, Aaron Boswell, Acceptance, Acts 17:6, Acts 2:23, Bible, Canada, Colossians 1:24, COVID-19, Drug Addicts, Exodus 4:21, Genesis 50:20, Hebrews 10:24-25, Isaiah 7:18, Job 1:21-22, John Piper, Loneliness, Love, Manitoba, Mark 8:34-38, Matthew 6:25-34, Matthew 6:27, Pandemic, Philippians 1:23, Philippians 2:14-16, Proverbs 16:9, Proverbs 21:1, Psalm 127:1, Psalm 139:16, Samantha Boswell, Sovereign God, Texas, The Trails Church, Widows, Winnipeg

• Mental Health for Each of Us

  

  We appreciate the time taken by Joann Weston, MA, LPC, a licensed professional counselor at Eaglecrest Counseling Center in Springfield, Missouri, to help us begin a conversation about mental health, as well as offer ideas on how we can support, love and encourage those who have been diagnosed with depression. We hear about “mental health”…

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  June 2, 2022

  2022, Culture, June 2022

  Anxiety, Celebrate Recovery, Depression, Eaglecrest Counseling Center, Encourage, Health Problems, Infant Death, Joann Weston, Love, M.E.N.D., MEND, Mental Health, Mental Health Awareness, Mental Health Definition, Mental Health Wellness, Mental Illness, Missouri, Mommies Enduring Neonatal Death, NAMI, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Ozarks, Physical Health, Self-care, Southwest Missouri, Springfield

• A Love Like His

  

  I love chocolate ice cream. I love the Kansas City Chiefs. I love my wife. All of those statements are true, but the meaning varies wildly. While I do enjoy chocolate ice cream very much, it does not hold the same place in my heart as my affection for my wife. words + photographs JOSHUA…

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  April 15, 2022

  April 2022, Culture, Faith, Neighbors

  Chocolate Ice Cream, Christ, Cross, Danny Tanner, Full House, Jesus, Joshua Manning, Kansas City Chiefs, Love, Missouri, Noel, Philippians 2:6

• Immoveable

  

  This may end sorely. words + photograph Julie Johnson What began as a portfolio piece has evolved into a big dream imagined by a big dreamer. Me. I’m the big dreamer. The what-iffer. I can take a penny-for-your-thoughts and turn it into a mountain of possibilities in no time flat. My brain and heart constantly…

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  May 1, 2021

  2021, From the Editor, May 2021

  Cinnamon Rolls, Doubt, God, Insecurities, Julie Johnson, Love, Psalms, The Lord's Steadfast Love