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A Different Way to Think of “Short Term Mission Trips”

Amy Peterson   / 9.29.23
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Things You Won’t Hear Anywhere Else (But Church)

David Zahl   / 9.28.23
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What Every Child Needs to Hear

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Joey Goodall   / 9.26.23
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Second Chance Saints, Indian Toilets, Mistaken Orders, Hawke’s Cross, and Failed Captchas

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Mommy Juice, Prioritizing Affection, Celebrity Teeth, Shrugging at the World, and the Sufferings Jesus

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Minding the One Thing Necessary

The Unnatural Unity Found by Grace Alone

Jason Micheli   / 9.28.23
Prodigal Grace

Grace is not just something that God does, an activity tangential to who God is. Grace has a name.

Kendall Cox   / 9.27.23
The Curse of the Law

Keep it or don’t keep it, there’s no winning.

David Clay   / 9.26.23
Bleeding From the Top of the Billboards

Zach Bryan asks, what are we to do with our wounds?

Sam Guthrie   / 9.25.23
Mbird Midwest Conference: “Grace Under Pressure”

Speakers, Talk Titles, and Descriptions

Mockingbird   / 9.25.23
A Pastor Isn’t a CEO

Ministry has to be something deeper than just doing a bunch of tasks.

Anthony Robinson   / 9.22.23
Mercy Begets Mercy

As goopy as it might be, we can’t show mercy to others unless we know mercy for ourselves.

Katelyn Beaty   / 9.21.23
Blame Belongs With the Blame-Shifters

Things You Won’t Hear Anywhere Else (But Church), Part Two

David Zahl   / 9.20.23
Our Primeval Inheritance

Finding Mercy in East of Eden

Janell Downing   / 9.20.23
Beau is Afraid (And So Are We)

Guilt and its Rotten Discontent

Blake Nail   / 9.19.23
Why I Abide in Ministry

The Enlivening Message of Grace

Jason Micheli   / 9.19.23
Robert Jenson’s A Theology in Outline

The Mockingbird Book Club, this Sunday with Jason Micheli

Ben Self   / 9.19.23
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