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By Melanie Mar Chow
How do we know Jesus loves us? Not just the ways the Bible tells us how much the Father loves us, how Jesus sacrificed his life for us as an act of love, or how we love because Jesus first loved us.
I have been considering this more and realize that people need to know about the powerful love of God in more tangible ways. As a campus minister, I am reminded by the honest cries of youth. Continue Reading »
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By Wendy Choy-Chan
When I first considered going into seminary, a church friend asked if I had a calling to full-time ministry. My answer was, “not really… I just love to study the Bible and what I am getting at church and elsewhere is not enough.” She then said, quite bluntly, that I shouldn’t go because I didn’t have a calling. Continue Reading »
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By Diana Gee
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By Liz Chang
The furniture fidgets got me last week for the first time in six months, and the reality of transition has become too obvious for me to ignore. I am moving out of a full-time-student-with-work-on-the-side world into a full-time-employee-with-workshops-on-the-side world. Continue Reading »
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By Debbie Gin
I begin this blog with the question: What have you seen that makes a good leader?
Let me offer my own couple thoughts. A church friend and I have been in an extended conversation about the Myers-Briggs (or Keirsey-Bates) Temperament Indicator and how this is related to good leadership. Continue Reading »
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By Dorcas Cheng-Tozun
I have a confession to make: I’m not very good at using those self-checkout machines at the grocery store. Somehow I end up losing track of which items I’ve scanned, or my reusable bags mess up the weighing mechanism and the attendant on duty has to release me from a locked system. Continue Reading »
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By Jerrica Ching
On April 4th of this year, my 95-year-old grandfather was called home to be with God. I consider him to be the most independent man I know to date; he cut the grass on his own lawn and drove his car around town up to the age of 93! To me he was invincible, and I truly believed he would live to be 100 or even older. Continue Reading »
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By Vivian Mabuni
I push the grocery cart fast, breezing through the aisles. Places to go, errands to run, lots of this and that on my mind. And out of the corner of my eye I see the yellow tray. It doesn’t register until after I push past the glass case.
I’m brought to a complete stop. And then I back up my cart and peer in. Continue Reading »
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By Tina Teng-Henson
After 9 months of being my daughter’s main care-provider, I was finally ready to find and pay for consistent childcare so I could focus anew on schoolwork — which then led me further down a path I needed to take: one of more fully integrating this new identity of mine as a new mom with the other parts of who I was before my daughter arrived – daughter, grad student, minister, friend, wife. Continue Reading »
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