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Continue reading →: Knowing
On spiritual retreat in Chartres, France, I am seeking God—looking at stained-glass windows, walking the labyrinth, taking long runs by the river, reading Scripture, worshiping in community, thinking, writing, and praying. This is the first in a series of postings on knowing and following Jesus more fully. Yesterday, a pastor…
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Continue reading →: No Shortcuts
Adapted from the charge to the graduates at a seminary in Myanmar. “Don’t Confuse Seeking God with Serving God” In my last posting, I praised the many dedicated faculty members and pastors I have met in Myanmar, who have inspired me with their sacrificial service. However, as time has gone…
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Continue reading →: What I am seeing…
I am seeing more and more signs of Spirit-led living and Spirit-led leadership in those around me—not because they’re increasing, but because I’m looking for them more. What’s making the biggest impression on me so far here in Burma is how many students, pastors, and leaders seem to be simply…
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Continue reading →: Spirit-Led Living in Real Life
What do you expect God to do in your life today? Are you expecting the Holy Spirit to create divine appointments for you in the midst of whatever else you have planned? Before heading out to Burma, I had a chance to visit my brother in Texas. As I was…
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Continue reading →: Transformation—One Step at a Time
A Request I Couldn’t Get Out of My Mind About two years ago, one of my sons’ friends and his parents came to our house for dinner one night. As we were flipping hamburgers on the grill, Mike (the father) and I started talking about spiritual growth. In a moment…
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Continue reading →: Change We Can Believe In
This is the first of two parts of a sermon I preached on November 16, 2008 in Sister Bay, Wisconsin. “Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in…
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Continue reading →: Crowning Christ, Loving the Least (1 of 6)
A series on accepting God’s love for us and portraying that love to others This posting was inspired by a discussion during lectio divina this past week ahead of The Reign of Christ (traditionally, Christ the King) Sunday. After an hour of reading, re-reading and meditating on this week’s Gospel text…
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Continue reading →: What can anyone do?
To say the situation is bleak in Congo understates the horror and impending catastrophe there. Since leaving Goma (the capital of Northern Kivu, on the border of Congo and Rwanda) a few weeks ago, the situation has deteriorated rapidly, with a sharp spike in displacement, hunger, rape, and deaths. The…
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Continue reading →: God Spottings
In Rwanda, I was once again surprised at how little faith I have sometimes—how easily I assume God has abandoned the victims of war, disease and violence. As I listened to Théo’s story and saw what he and his sisters have had to endure, I was first shocked, then angry,…
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Continue reading →: Facing Truth
This is the first in a series of reflections on our recent trip to Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo with Faith, Hope and Love Global Ministries. Presumed dead, Théoneste was thrown into a latrine filled with piles of other mutilated bodies. Having just witnessed his parents being hacked…
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Rev. Timothy C. Geoffrion, Ph.D, D.D.
Tim is an ordained minister of the American Baptist Churches with a Ph.D. in New Testament Studies from the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. He also holds an (honorary) Doctor of Divinity degree from Myanmar Institute of Theology (MIT). He has served as a church pastor, a seminary professor, and the executive director of a nonprofit organization. Currently, as co-founder and president of Faith, Hope, and Love Global Ministries, he focuses on Christian leadership development globally. Read more.
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