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Every Piece Matters: Placed by God. Needed in the Body.

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  by Bart Denny A reflection on 1 Corinthians 12:12–27 (adapted from a sermon preached at Pathway Church in Saranac, Michigan on May 3 and available here ). Here's something I've never quite admitted out loud. There have been moments in my life — in ministry, even — where I quietly wondered if I actually mattered. Not in a dramatic, crisis-of-faith kind of way. It was subtler than that. I'd look around and think, Someone else could do this better than me. Maybe I'm not really that necessary here. I wouldn't have said it out loud. But the thought was there — that quiet assumption that if I stayed on the edges, if I didn't fully engage, everything would probably still be fine. Someone more gifted would pick it up. Someone more visible would carry it. I could just… hang back. And if I'm honest, most of the time that didn't come from laziness. It came from comparison. From not being sure that what I brought really made much of a difference. From finding it e...
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A Yielded Life: God’s Battleplan for Christian Victory

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 As I write this, we are on the brink of another national election here in the United States. I have to admit that, right or wrong, I’ve kind of tuned out from the news and especially the election coverage.  I mean, to be honest, I wasn’t recovered from the last election. I’ve tuned out the banter around the election because it’s bad enough to look on TV or the internet and watch the candidates and their surrogates sniping, bickering, and fighting back and forth.   That’s bad enough, but it’s even worse when I look on social media, and it’s friends and family, people I love and care about that are fighting. It’s people who claim to know and love the Lord that are very publicly shredding each other. You dare criticize their candidate, then you’re probably not even a Christian as far as they’re concerned. Honestly, it makes me sad. It feels like so many Christians are convinced that if Jesus was here on earth today, He would vote exactly the way they would.   Per...
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