Category Archives: Sabbath

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Leah’s Unplug Story

An overseas testimony of a weekly break from technology

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Have you joined our Unplug Challenge yet? We challenge you to commit one day a week to set aside the distraction of technology. You won’t be disappointed in your commitment. We have a inspiring testimony to share with you from a friend Leah who lives overseas… “I live overseas and have a million reasons to live […]

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Unplug

Un-teathering ourselves from technology in the New Year

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We are so wired! We are always “on” and always “available.” We are co-dependent on our iphones and ipads. We can’t live with them. We certainly can’t live without them. The result: We’re glued, veering off and into pseudo-community-thinking our connections on social media will be “there” for us when we’re thrown a curve ball […]

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Pondering Means Not Hurrying

5 Aspects to Growing a Contemplative Soul

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“But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.” Luke 2: 19 In a single verse, we are privy to what Mary actually did—after she was told that she was going to have a baby and that her baby would have a sacred role in God’s plan for humanity. We see […]

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Listening to the Word

Guidelines for Deeper Listening to the Scriptures

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As moderns, we think we know how to read most books. Yet in our fast society and driven cultures, we graze over books rarely having a moment to sit with what we are reading. We think that reading the Bible through in a year will actually help us. But it’s interesting that Americans are really […]