Author: Michelle Van Loon
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What Do Your Kids Know About Communion?
I taught Sunday School for years. The experience taught me a few things. One essential lesson was to avoid any craft project involving glitter. I found glitter in my clothes, hair, and Bible for days after creating sparkly Noah’s Ark rainbows with my class of first-and second-graders. A word to the wise: no matter how…
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Reflection: The Sound of a Million Dreams
A person’s steps are directed by the Lord. How then can anyone understand their own way? – Proverbs 20:24 I worked at a college for five years and developed friendships with a few students that extended beyond their graduation day. As a result, I was part of the lives of a couple of them when they had…
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I’m excited to share some news with you!
I’m pleased to announce I just signed a contract with Moody Publishers to write my 5th book! The working title is Nowhere To Lay My Head. (Those working titles, I’ve learned, often get tweaked and changed during the book creation process. But for now, this is what we’re calling it.) Here’s a summary of the…
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True Influence: The Mordecai Option
The Jewish feast of Purim took place this year from sundown Saturday, March 11th through sundown of the 12th. It is for me an opportunity each year to revisit this remarkable story of survival in the face of super-size, demonic anti-Semitism. The book of Esther found in our Bibles never once mentions God’s Name, yet…
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Touch Not God’s Anointed
Those who’ve attended a spiritually-abusive church have more than likely heard some version of a warning drawn from the pages of Scripture about not challenging a leader’s authority: “Touch not God’s anointed.” There are a couple of big problems with this kind of talk. First, in an authoritarian church system, challenging a leader’s authority might…
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6 Things Christians Can Do Right Now To Combat Anti-Semitism
A few days ago, I wrote about the relative silence by Evangelical leaders in regards to the uptick in anti-Semitism we’re seeing in this country. I have been appreciative of the expressions of concern and support by Gentile believing friends, but discouraged by the lack of attention this problem has been given by Evangelical church…