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All Is Gift: Buy-One, Give-One Holiday Special!
Hello Strangers and Friends!
Today is #GivingTuesday. As we focus today on being generous to those we love and care about, we thought this would be the perfect day to kick off another campaign to share For the Life of the World with your family, friends, and co-workers.
‘The Gift of the Magi’ and the Power of Exchange
By Joseph Sunde
Amid the array of quaint and compelling Christmas tales, O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi” continues to endure as a uniquely captivating portrait of the power of sacrificial love.
The Kates: Saying ‘Yes’ to Family
By Joseph Sunde
Saying “yes” to family involves plenty of love and sacrifice, yet this tends to play out not in grand gestures, but through mundane, everyday struggles. Saying “yes” to family means loving, encouraging, and blessing each and every day — and not just with our kids or parents, brothers or sisters.
It means pouring into our families that our families might be poured out for the life of the world.
6 Ways to Live as Christians in the City
This post originally appeared at the Denver Institute for Faith and Work, where Mr. Haanen is executive director. It is republished here with permission.
By Jeff Haanen
Occasionally you meet somebody that shines with such virtue that you are, perhaps for the first time, made aware of your own poverty of spirit.
Whatever We Endeavor, All of It Is His
Creation was fashioned by God, fashioned with life that surges and scintillates in its bosom, fashioned with the powers that lie dormant in its womb. Yet, lying there, it displayed but half its beauty. Now, however, God crowns it with humanity, who awakens its life, arouses its powers, and with human hands brings to light the glory that once lay locked in its depths but had not yet shone on its countenance.
Aslan’s Song of Stewardship
By Joseph Sunde
When we think about “stewardship,” our minds will often revert to the material and predictable. We think about money or the allocation of resources. We think about growing crops or creating goods or financial investment and generosity.
King David on the Heart of Christian Stewardship
By Joseph Sunde
We live amid unprecedented economic prosperity, and with the promise of globalization and the continued expansion of opportunity and exchange, such prosperity is bound to grow.