Category: Discipleship
19
Nov
Living Half the Gospel
by Jenn Smith Chen
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“We who formerly hated and murdered one another now live together and share the same table. We pray for our enemies and try to win...
12
Nov
Peter’s Bias Journey
by Jenn Smith Chen
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When I was a little girl growing up in Sunday school, I never quite understood why Peter never seemed to get it together. Abiding by...
05
Nov
Listening and Loving, Lessons from Acts 6
by Jenn Smith Chen
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2020 has been a squeezing year. There has been so much loss of life, normalcy, friendship. As though for a rolled up tube of toothpaste,...
11
Jun
Following Jesus: A Process for Rooting Out Racism
by Jenn Smith Chen
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When I read that George Floyd called out for his mama during his last moments of air, the mom in me convulsed in repeated shockwaves...
30
Apr
Rebuilding in the Kingdom
by Jenn Smith Chen
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The beautiful thing about blessings is how quickly they multiple. At the beginning of the stay at home order, I sent my nieces a kit...
09
Apr
Women—Disciples to the End
by Jenn Smith Chen
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Unremitting darkness. Loud lies repeating in your mind. Truth evasive. Hate heaped. Love removed. Catch your breath. But no. Relentless. No way out. No. Hope....
19
Mar
Gentleness and Peace in COVID19
by Jenn Smith Chen
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March is Women’s History Month, and my plan was to spend the month highlighting women from church history; then COVID19 finally came to the United...
06
Feb
Unseen and Under Loved
by Jenn Smith Chen
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She often was overlooked. People, sensing a disability that they couldn’t quite place, weren’t sure how to engage in conversation with her. The most comfortable...
23
Jan
Relationships with Christ-Followers 2020
by Jenn Smith Chen
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“Anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble” 1 John 2:10 (NIV)....
16
Jan
Relationship with God in 2020
by Jenn Smith Chen
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“Those who know your name trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you” Psalm 9:10 (NIV). In various verses throughout...