A Virtual Nativity Scene December 17, 2024Paul Miller The first person to make a nativity scene was Francis of Assisi, in 1223 AD. Francis’ imagination was so captured by the “lowness” of Jesus’ birth that he dramatized it,...
A Passion for Transformation: Meet Rami & Shirley Rivas, Trainers December 11, 2024Liz Voboril In 2011, Rami and Shirley Rivas attended a training for the Person of Jesus study -- and there was no looking back. After that training, Rami preached through all 46...
The Burden That Wouldn’t Go Away December 09, 2024Liz Voboril A college internship landed Stefani Sequeira, a psychology major from Nicaragua, in a therapy center in Mexico that served young adults with disabilities. As she got to know them, she...
Daddy, You Already Know: How My Kids (and my Cohort) Help Me Pray November 22, 2024David Jamison I was sitting on my back patio reading A Praying Life when my six-year-old son came up and he asked me what I was reading. I told him, “I’m reading this book...
A Harvest of Saints October 25, 2024Michele Walton All around me, I see the saints doing this work of ministry, building up the body of Christ and participating in God’s work of making things new. When church buildings...
A Lesson in Nonprofit Management from Boy’s Life Magazine September 09, 2024Paul Miller I was 11 years old when I got my first lesson in nonprofit management. An ad in a Boy’s Life Magazine caught my eye. Here are a few principles God has...
Cultivating the Mind of Christ, from Asia to Arizona May 20, 2024Liz Voboril It’s an unlikely story, the kind of thing that would never make it into a strategic plan, but it has God’s fingerprints all over it. Our West Coast and East...
Love Under Pressure: Watch Jesus Love Through Holy Week March 12, 2024Paul Miller Studying Jesus’ suffering on the way to the cross can feel heavy and dark, like one bad thing after another. But in this time of incredible pressure, his compassion, his...
Sparks of Joy Under the “Bonnet” of the Church March 06, 2024Liz Voboril When Pastor John Caprine asked Colin Millar, seeJesus’ European Coordinator, if he’d come to Las Vegas to lead a seminar at Summit Ridge, Colin recalls, “I really had to stop...
God’s Word Changing Lives in Chile February 26, 2024Liz Voboril Our Bethesda team traveled to Santiago, Chile to lead a training for disability ministry leaders with Semejantes, a Chilean Joni & Friends ministry partner. The Semejantes Coordinator quickly caught Bethesda’s...
A Marriage Transformed, Again, by the Love of Jesus February 12, 2024Misha Sisco Misha sensed the Holy Spirit asking her to reach out to a couple at church. Little did she know, she was a conduit to Jesus transforming their marriage through the...
What We Learn about Faith from Jesus January 24, 2024Paul Miller We rarely talk about Jesus' faith. One reason for this is that we’ve not considered how serious the embodiment of Jesus is. We’re so aware he’s God that we think:...
