The question for this week: what are your creative ideas for making a little difference in your community 2013 to 2018?

May 17, 2013
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I want you to take you back to 1970 one more time to meet a mentor and friend…Frank Herbert, author of Dune  and a host of other compelling books.  Dune was widely used as an environmental study book when it came out in the early 70s at the very beginning of that first environmental movement. [...]

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Since that first Earth Day April 22, 1970 how are you caring for God’s good creation?

April 30, 2013
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- by Tom Sine – Last week I wrote about watching Denis Hayes President of the Bullitt Foundation join Governor Jay Inslee and Mayor Mike McGinn cutting the ribbon to open the Bullitt Building, the greenest building in the US, here in Seattle Earth Day 2013. In 1970 Denis Hayes dropped out of the Kennedy [...]

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Life after Resurrection…What does Jesus’ mustard seed empire look like?

April 16, 2013
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– by Tom Sine – Our last post we asked “Life after Resurrection… What are God’s purposes for a people and a world?”  We answered by painting a very different biblical vision for a people and a world than getting our souls rescued for the clouds.  This week we are asking what does Jesus mustard [...]

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How do you plan to celebrate life after Easter 2013?

March 28, 2013
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Christine and I had a stimulating conversation on Monday with a great group of 11 George Fox University  students and a couple of staff.   This is the first time we have used our great new classroom in the Mustard Seed Village as you can see in the picture.  This first day of holy week has [...]

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As we rapidly journeying towards Easter 2013 have you ever considered inviting God to ignite your “divine spark?”

March 22, 2013
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– by Tom Sine — Cindy Todd helped a group of us last Saturday invite God to “ignite our divine sparks” and I can’t remember being a part of a gathering that so stirred my imagination and my creativity.  The first exercise took all of us back to our childhood, remembering the things that make [...]

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Are you ready for the Lenten discipline of coming out of hiding?

March 5, 2013
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- by Tom Sine – Christine and I, and our golden retriever, Bonnie, just came back from one of our prayer retreats at a doggie friendly motel in Anacortes just north of Seattle.  It is a modest place with a little view of the water and a great walking trail.  Part of the discipline of [...]

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Are you ready for the spiritual discipline of daily gratitude?

February 14, 2013
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– by Tom Sine –   Last week we ask you: are you ready for the spiritual discipline of daily laughter? We encouraged you to join Ted and Company in learning to laugh at our own foibles every day so we could learn to live without taking ourselves too seriously. This week we are urging [...]

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Living on Purpose with New Disciplines in 2013

January 8, 2013
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by Tom Sine — Are you ready to embrace new disciplines to follow Jesus in living on purpose in 2013? Last week I asked: “Do you want to start the New Year by ‘living on purpose?’” I outlined one way you might begin to discern how to connect your life more directly to God’s loving [...]

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Do you want to start the New Year by “living on purpose?”

January 3, 2013
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– by Tom Sine – Christine and I and our good friends Tom and Kim Balke had a lovely dinner last night in Vancouver BC with Alan and Jane Roxburgh, who heads The Missional Network. We are seeing serious economic uncertainty in many of our western countries as we enter 2013.  This means many of [...]

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Part 2: What is you vision of the good life and better future you are looking forward to?

December 18, 2012
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– by Tom Sine – As we race towards Christmas 2012 and a very uncertain new year, what is your vision of the good life and better future you’re giving your life to? Is the good life of God really simply about getting “a piece of the rock” now and disembodied existence in the clouds [...]

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