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				<title>A Great Commission Summer: Thoughts for Students</title>
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				Students, could you give one of your summers to making Jesus Christ known around the world?
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				<title>How Does Anyone Afford Mission Trips?</title>
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				Have you ever thought about going on a mission trip but the cost of the trip turned you away? Maybe you heard about a wonderful opportunity to make Jesus known amongst a people that God had placed on your heart through the exact methods God had gifted you in, and then, you found out the price. What...
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				<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>He is Faithful</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 25 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>The Shepherd Who Leads</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>Light Has Dawned</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>When The Stakes are High &amp; Holy</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>Biblical Realities of Missions</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>When Visitors Come</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>The Great Commission is Church Work</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>The Joy of Faithfulness</title>
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				"Live simply so others may simply live"
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				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>Overseas Life as Family and Mom</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>So You're Thinking of Going: Next Steps</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>So You're Thinking of Going: Books to Read</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>The Gospel in Romans &amp; A Thank You Letter to Paul</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>The Reflex of the Resurrection: Mission</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>Broken Land, Gospel Seeds, and Hopeful Fruit</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>So What is Ramadan?</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>Romans: The Gateway to Paradise that Propels Our Going</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>The Purpose and Practice of Lament</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>What exactly is Lament?</title>
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				"Grief is un-tame. I want to control it. I want it to bend to my wants and wishes....My grief and your grief won't look the same, but this tool of Lament is a gift from the Lord that we can all use. He knows our weaknesses and knows that we cannot handle the grief of this world without him. "
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				<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>A Lament for Türkiye &amp; Syria</title>
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				"The shaking, the quaking, all seems gone. ...
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				<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>What in the World is Missionary Care and Why is it Important?</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>The Bible Does It Again</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>The Tortoise and the Hare</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>Something to Consider</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>Letters to You Brook Hills</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>How Dark is the Darkness?</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>Prayer's Unrecognized Enemy</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>Why a Global Dispatch</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>Processing My Role in the Great Commission</title>
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				“So why do you want to spend the next two years overseas?”
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				<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>We Will Train</title>
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				We want to know God and serve Him, but no one in our tribe knows how to study and teach the Word of God. I want to be that man!
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				<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>We Will Plant and Nurture</title>
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				I recently had an interesting opportunity with a mover in our city. To provide some context, my family and I live and work in a city in Turkey and have intentionally planted our lives among Turkish people.
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				<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>We Will Advocate</title>
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				My name is Anjli and I am in the 11th grade. For the last ten years I have lived in a girls’ home here in Pakistan where I am loved and supported.
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				<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>We Will Proclaim</title>
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				Sharif explained that he had been thinking a lot about the gospel stories and everything we had discussed throughout the previous months. He knew that following Jesus could potentially cost him everything.
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				<title>A Fruitful Environment for Gospel Proclamation</title>
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				When Vanessa walked out of her high-rise apartment in Kuala Lumpur to go for a run, she never imagined that running a mile would require her to run back-and-forth a 30-foot hallway of her building to accomplish it.
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				<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>Suspended in Ministry</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>God’s Sovereignty Amidst Our Uncertainty</title>
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				“Things don’t always go the way we plan, but the risk is worth it, even with our physical lives,” Dave said. “We always want to be wise, but sometimes things don’t make sense. Knowing He’s sovereign and in control and that we can trust Him — that’s what matters.”
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				<pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>God Always Provides</title>
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				After traveling this past summer to a mountain village in Southeast Asia, Courtney Talley said one thing is crystal clear — God wants the people there to know Him. And He will send rain and disrupt plans if that’s what it takes to make it happen.
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				<pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>Sending our Children No Matter the Cost</title>
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				What would it look like to not only free your kids to go to the other side of the globe but also encourage them to do so? And what could it cost?
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				<pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>A New Family</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>2019 Matters</title>
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				"The end of all things is near,” Peter wrote to the suffering, scattered disciples across Asia Minor...
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				<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				Royce and Sandra W. had bought into the American dream. They’d worked hard, raised a family, and were preparing to enter their retirement years enjoying the money they’d saved. They had plans of traveling the world together. But God had something unexpected and infinitely greater in mind for...
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				<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				In 1948, Dwight Martin’s parents left the United States called by God to serve as long-term missionaries among the people of Thailand. They left not knowing if they would ever return home.
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				<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>Did I Dig Deep Enough?</title>
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				One of the unwavering commitments of your Elder Council during these last three years of prayerful discussion regarding the Campus Development Plan that is before us a church has been to not compromise or de-emphasize Brook Hills’ annual collection of a Global Offering. Over the years, it has...
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				“I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.” —Philippians 1:3-5
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				<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>Stop and Pray</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>Worth the Risk</title>
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				K.B. was very young when she first thought about what it means to follow Jesus wherever He might lead, and even then, she considered what it could cost her.
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				<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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				Pastor Martin never imagined when the protests started back in April that his country and community would be caught in a wildfire of violence and that many in his church would be left to scrounge for the most basic things like food and water.
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				<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>Shepherding God's Church to the Nations</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>Answered Prayers for the Arundo</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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