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Super Bowl Party!

Super Bowl Party!

If you've been waiting for the perfect excuse to love your neighbor, it's coming up soon! Kickoff for Super Bowl LVIII is Sunday, February 11, 2024 at 6:30 pm EST. This is one day when everyone loves football (and doesn't skip the ads). Host a Soup-er Bowl Party to...

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A New Excuse Not to Love My Neighbor

A New Excuse Not to Love My Neighbor

In my continual quest to find an exception clause or asterisk to Christ’s Second Greatest Command, I have a new excuse I’m sure the Lord has never heard before: “My neighborhood is a ghost town.” Literally. I live on a guest ranch in Colorado where the cabins are...

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100 Ways To Engage Your Neighborhood

100 Ways To Engage Your Neighborhood

When Josh Reeves made a list of 100 ways to engage your neighborhood. He said: "I have found that it is often helpful to have practical ideas to start engaging the people around me. Most of the things on this list are normal, everyday things that many people are...

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How to Have Your Entire Town to Dinner

How to Have Your Entire Town to Dinner

Maybe you've seen my Stories or heard rumors about the free community dinner in my hometown that stretches for blocks? It's all true! Since word has gotten out, small towns around the U.S. have asked: How did you start an annual community dinner for over 3,000...

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Bible Study Recommendations for a New Neighborhood Cafe

Bible Study Recommendations for a New Neighborhood Cafe

Bible Study Recommendations for a New Neighborhood Cafe "Do you have suggestions on books or studies that work well when a group is first getting established? If the group gels, I figure the group can help decide on the next study, but choosing the first topic is up...

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How to Love Your Neighbor in 2021

How to Love Your Neighbor in 2021

Special Bonus ChapterUpdated EditionPANDEMICS, PROTESTS, POLITICS & MOREThis decade is off to a rough start. So far, the 2020’s are marked by a deadly global pandemic, distressing racial tensions, divisive partisan politics, and white-knuckle economic uncertainty....

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Books that Build Relationships: Nothing to Prove

Books that Build Relationships: Nothing to Prove

Before 10am there are already a list of things telling me I’m not enough. I am behind on laundry, I did not meet a work deadline and I choose to eat a donut rather than avocado toast for breakfast. To turn my insufficiencies around, I try harder. I people please. I...

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Mason Jar Makeover and Iced Coffee

Mason Jar Makeover and Iced Coffee

I met Cindy, otherwise known as the DoAhead Woman, at a Proverbs 31 Conference in 2013 when we were randomly assigned to the same group to take an intensive look at our ministries. I trembled in a corner, amazed and intimidated by the incredible talent in the room,...

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National Night Out

National Night Out

Looking for a great night to get to know your neighbors? August 5 is National Night Out, “America’s Night Out Against Crime.” When Shamokin, Pennsylvania made international headlines as "The town so broke that city hall's gas was cut off," long-time resident Joan D....

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Advent Devotional

Advent Devotional

Did you know there was 400 years of silence between the end of the Old Testament and the nativity story? Yet Luke 1:10 tells us that “a great crowd stood outside, praying” as a priest named Zechariah did his duties at the temple. The people had been praying for 400...

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