Featured Presence Weekly 4/29/2024 As Christians, serving and leading in Washington, our renewed ethics create a recalibrating dissonance between what is seen as progress and what leads to true flourishing.
Featured Presence Weekly 4/22/2024 We are in search of comfort and, even as Christians, constantly forgetting where to find it. Further, our pursuit of comfort is often based on the things that we can control or acquire. Both present problems.
Presence Weekly 4/15/2024 God calls us to do exactly what the people had to do upon returning from the exile, to take a moment, stand on the vista, and then walk among the ruins and see what needed restoration. We cannot walk around our lives or our city with our eyes closed to the devastation and what is lacking.
Presence Weekly 4/08/2024 Misreading this verse as a word to individuals sets us up for asking, “What about when MY life is a disaster?”
Presence Weekly 4/01/2024 To rephrase Milton Friedman, "The social responsibility of a Christian is to seek the welfare of the city."
Presence Weekly 3/25/2024 In living the only life ever lived where saying I am sorry was unnecessary, Jesus took all of our “I am sorry”s, and even the ones we should have said but didn’t, and declared, “You are forgiven!”
Presence Weekly 3/18/2024 The DEVO - The Mission of Whole-life Discipleship The Greatest Commandment 6 "Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it,
Featured Presence Weekly 3/11/2024 [The DEVO ] The “Pink Spoon” Mission 9 “When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. 10 And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen
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Presence Weekly 3/4/2024 The Devo: The Mission of Work (aka Worship) 3 Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 And the angel of the Lord
Featured Presence Weekly 2/26/2024 While only Christ blesses through redemption from sin, Christians are called to bless through cultivating the world toward flourishing for all.
Presence Weekly 2/20/2024 The DEVO - God's Word for Our Lives 24 And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. 25 And God made the beasts of the
Featured Presence Weekly 2/12/2024 [The Devo] The Bona Fides of Righteousness 3 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you. 2 Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the
Presence Journal Featured A Vision for the High Calling of Investing By intentionally reminding ourselves of the true purpose of investing, our hearts are directed outward to our neighbors near and far.
Presence Weekly 2/05/2024 The Devo - "What World Is This?" 9 I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. 10 All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. 11
Presence Weekly 1/29/2024 [The Devo] The Basis for Our Dependence Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread
Presence Weekly 1/22/2024 [The Devo] Dependence as Virtue 127 A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. 1 Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. 2 It is in vain that you rise up early and
Presence Weekly 1/15/2024 [The Devo] Caucusing for Jesus Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Dr. King fought hard for all Americans to have their voices heard and respected in this country. Dr. King led Christians and everyone in America to face the reality that all lives matter in all aspects of life:
Presence Weekly 1/08/2024 [The Devo] Taylor Swift, U2, and Rethinking Resolutions Most of us take the new year as an opportunity to look forward with a renewed sense of optimism and commitment to improving our lives. It is as though we consider the new year a chance to start afresh. In an effort
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Presence Weekly 12/18/2023 [The Devo] The Suffering of Christmas 12 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. 13 But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad
Presence Weekly 12/11/2023 [The Devo] Who’s on the Naughty List Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord
Presence Weekly 12/04/2023 [The Devo] Waiting and Advent “The waiting is the hardest part.” Tom Petty was almost spot on when he said that. I say, almost, because Petty’s statement misses an important point about context. It’s not hard to wait for a dentist appointment or an oil change, for example.
Presence Weekly 11/27/2023 [The Devo] Thanksgiving Whiplash As the opening lyric of the classic American songbook standard, What A Difference A Day Makes, states, “What a difference a day makes, 24 little hours, brought the sun and the flowers, where there used to be rain.” The song points out the perspective-changing impact that
