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What’s So Great About A Balanced Life?
by Jennifer Bradbury
If you ask me, living a balanced life is overrated.
Don’t get me wrong. Balance is something that we in our 21st-century American culture emphasize a lot. Yet I can’t help but wonder if we’re overemphasize the importance of balance in our lives. Should we, as individuals and as churches, really be as obsessed over living a balanced life as we are? Should we measure the success of our careers, our lives, and our holiness according to whether or not we achieve balance in our lives?
I don’t think so.
After all, a word search of the entire NIV translation of the Bible….
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Discovering Jesus on the Lower East Side
by Jeremy Del Rio
The knots in my stomach tightened. As the distance between us grew, I could feel the color leave my face. You hypocrite, I thought. So busy with ministry that you pretend not to notice?
Truthfully I had noticed. In fact I saw her so vividly that I crossed the street so she wouldn’t see me ignoring her. Not that it would’ve really made a difference. She didn’t know me from the thousands of others who ignore her every day, and we’d never even seen each other previous to that moment, as far as I knew.
But that wasn’t the point.
The point was….
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The Paradox of Phariseeism
by David R. Smith
“Luke” was a youth pastor at the largest and most influential church in his community. He had a huge budget, exciting programs, and tons of students who genuinely loved him.
Luke was married to a beautiful, talented, godly woman. Their church loved and appreciated both of them for investing their lives into ministry leadership.
But Luke was also an addict—a sex addict. He knew his secret cravings weren’t congruent with the holiness God had called him to, and in his mind, marital infidelity was the worst-case scenario.
Unfortunately for Luke, he couldn’t have been more wrong.
He implemented several strategies to avoid sexual immorality…..
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archived
February 2010 (View complete archive page)
- - Lessons From A Holy Man | February 22, 2010
- - Building a Paradigm for Your Ministry | February 20, 2010
- - The Confirmation Teacher/Mentor | February 20, 2010
March 2010 (View complete archive page)
- - A Window to Our Students’ Souls | March 10, 2010
- - Living in Post-Easter Mode | March 10, 2010
- - Leading Past Your Liabilities | March 10, 2010
- - Engaging Parents | March 10, 2010
- - A Sharpened Focus | March 10, 2010
April 2010 (View complete archive page)
- - Experimenting With Jesus | April 22, 2010
- - Creating A Hunger To Serve | April 22, 2010
- - Southern Soul Food | April 22, 2010
- - Doctrine as a Scripting Agent | April 20, 2010
- - Revealed or Concealed? | April 19, 2010
- - Play as a Theological Value | April 9, 2010
May 2010 (View complete archive page)
- - Generation Justice | May 19, 2010
- - Open Hands | May 19, 2010
- - Tossing Aside The Tract | May 19, 2010
- - 10 Ways To Connect Youth To Adults | May 17, 2010
- - Professional Youth Ministry: A Changing Landscape | May 12, 2010
- - Parents Who Fight, Kids Who Hurt | May 12, 2010
June 2010 (View complete archive page)
- - Teaching Senior Highers How To Think Critically | June 4, 2010
- - Does Jesus Love Americans More Than Mexicans? | June 4, 2010
- - Helping Grown Ups Hang In There | June 4, 2010
- - Justice For The Uncool | June 4, 2010
- - What Isn't Persecution? | June 4, 2010










