Posts with the tag “2022-04”
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Healing, Hope, and Community
April 30th, 2024
As we look at the culture of the United States today, certain words come up often: anger, distrust, political and cultural division, confusion, hopelessness, and isolation. This was magnified during t... Read More
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Let It Rain
July 15th, 2022
The photo above is from the panel discussion about the CLB vision to be a "Disciple-Making Church." Each ministry director discussed how this vision is lived out through their area of CLB ministry. Wa... Read More
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Call to Follow
July 15th, 2022
The following is the Saturday evening sermon during the 2022 Biennial Convention by Pastor Chris Priestaf. You can also watch a video of the sermon at the end of this article. Things come and things g... Read More
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Partner in Mission
July 15th, 2022
The following is the Sunday morning sermon during the 2022 Biennial Convention by President Paul Larson. You can also watch a video of the sermon at the end of this article. If you watch the overhead ... Read More
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Unleash New Leaders
July 15th, 2022
In Paul’s last letter, 2 Timothy, Paul was coming to the end of his life, and there’s a sense as we read it that the end is near.For people at that last stage of life, there often becomes an incredibl... Read More
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Multiply New Disciples
July 15th, 2022
Imagine that you are sitting across from Jesus, and he asks you this question: “Do you love me?” How would you respond?There is an awkwardness to being asked a simple question that I know the answer t... Read More
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Immensely Grateful
July 15th, 2022
Alan and I were married during our final years of college. We were both music education majors, developing our passions for the standard repertoire of our respective instruments, authentic performance... Read More
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Women Together
July 15th, 2022
It was so good to be women together! Women from as far away as Washington, California, Connecticut, and Saskatchewan enjoyed a wonderful Saturday, June 11, together in Minnesota. It was great to greet... Read More
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Unleashing the Next Generation
July 15th, 2022
God’s call on my life is to encourage the call. It’s a call that came one December night in 1984 as I was walking alone on a deserted street in Urbana, Illinois. I had just attended the last session o... Read More
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An Instrument for His Glory
July 15th, 2022
By the time you are reading this article my family and I will, Lord willing, be in Chad serving as CLB missionaries to the unreached. God has been very gentle with our family in leading us through pre... Read More
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En ce Moment
July 15th, 2022
En ce moment (“at this time,” in French), we live in a constant tension between the hard and the good. This period of transition from France to Chad, while at times hard and overwhelming, can be at th... Read More
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Sent Home to Serve
July 15th, 2022
Twenty-five years ago, I wrote for Faith and Fellowship regarding the Grand Forks, North Dakota flood of ’97. Our church building was greatly damaged, and the church suffered as well. 50,000 people ha... Read More
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Rev. Larson Re-Elected as CLB President
June 21st, 2022
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How Much More
May 12th, 2022
Call me crazy, but I get a little excited when my ten-year-old daughter approaches me with a necklace she has found hiding in her coat pocket for the past month. More than once this has happened over ... Read More