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Friday Lights: Refuge

Friday Lights: Refuge

Each Friday we post content sent to us by our readers that is inspiring, funny, lighthearted or just generally fun. If you’d like more information on submitting content for this feature you can get more information here.


Jean Rath sent us the video above, along with an article that chronicles how this family escaped war and terror though the efforts of a small group of people. So inspiring. If you’re interested, you can read that story here.

Have a great Friday everyone!

Related Reading

Reflections on Divine Violence in the Old Testament

As some of you know, for the last five years I’ve been working on a book addressing the problem of divine violence in the OT. (For alleged violence in the NT, see Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld, Killing Enmity: Violence in the New Testament (Baker Academic, 2011).  It will be a highly academic tome, approximately 600…

Friday Lights: Connection

Each Friday we post content sent to us by our readers that is inspiring, funny, lighthearted or just generally fun. If you’d like more information on submitting content for this feature you can get more information here. 

How Should We Respond to Bullies?

Greg answers a question from parents as to how their child should respond to a bully.

Doing the Kingdom, Not Voting It In

Our central job is not to solve the world’s problems. Our job is to draw our entire life from Christ and manifest that life to others. Nothing could be simpler—and nothing could be more challenging. Perhaps this partly explains why we have allowed ourselves to be so thoroughly co-opted by the world. It’s hard to…

Are we called to suffering?

What does it mean when we say we’re called to suffering? Does it mean that we should allow ourselves to be victimized or that God approves when we are abused? Here are Greg’s thoughts on this topic.

Friday Lights: Megan’s Story

Each Friday we post content sent to us by our readers that is inspiring, funny, lighthearted or just generally fun. If you’d like more information on submitting content for this feature you can get more information here.  Here’s something from our friend Josiah Haken of New York City Relief. So good.