Articles by: Andi Shaw

 

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  let’s run like we’re redeemed

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  The church has a bad image in today’s culture. People love Christ, but not His church. Christians are “judgmental”, “hypocrites”, and “loveless”. Some in the church are taking a stand to show the world that’s not who we are, but there are also those in the church who have excused [...]
   
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  love them because God loves them

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  The church is changing. God is moving and there is a revolution on the rise, a revolution for the organic Christian. These ideas like those from my post, the McChurch, aren’t new or original. Authors like Dan Kimball and Mark Batterson are writing about bringing the church back to what [...]
   
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  the McChurch

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  This is the era of the quick, the easy, the flashy, the bright lights, the fake noses, the artificial, and the shortcuts. Our culture wants fast food, fast service, fast internet, immediate information, instant satisfaction. Sadly, today’s churches are not much different. Our purpose, our passion, the meat of what [...]
   
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  [the 72 project] churches, zoos, and salt shakers

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  It is not a habit of mine to sugarcoat things. Every time I write one of these posts, I reread it over and over and find myself grimacing at the words I use. I want to clean it up, soften it, make it “PC”, water it down. I don’t like [...]
   
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  [the 72 project] young and homeless

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  Now Nashville… Well it is a long ways from California, geographically and culturally. It’s a whole ‘nother world out here. This is not my first trip to Nashville, but this time my purpose is different; I’m here to see — really see with God’s eyes — the homeless and impoverished [...]
   
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  [the 72 project] divine interactions in austin

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  So Austin, TX… This post has been a bit delayed now that I am situated in the Nashville, TN area, but I feel it incredibly important to recount what happened in that city. It is quite a city. While it was hard to find homeless in Phoenix, one would have [...]
   
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  [the 72 project] a dream and a smile

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  Sleepy, our friend at CASS, the homeless shelter on Madison in downtown Phoenix, conveniently had directed Viktor and I to the Phoenix Dream Center on Grand Ave. We drove up to it later that day and I decided I wanted to give that place some of the donations we had [...]
   
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  [the 72 project] the beginning: finding direction

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  Our first stop: Phoenix, AZ. We aren’t in LA anymore. That’s for sure. The first thing Viktor and I noticed are the homeless are much more difficult to find. In Los Angeles, we have the infamous skid row along with the panhandlers on most corners and the wandering cart-pusher, just [...]
   
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  shining light on the souls of shadows [purpose of the seventy-two project]

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  Two of my personal goals on this trip are to deeply get to know the people God puts in my path, and to share their life stories with as many people as I can so that people can put a name to a face. When I’ve talked to friends or [...]
   
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  a cross-country trip [for the least of these]

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  God is moving. I’ve heard so many people saying that recently, yet it’s still so easy for us to continue sitting in our pews at church and leave the moving to God. So I’d like to say instead that God isn’t just moving… God is calling His children to move. [...]
   
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  [my picture testimony] by andi shaw

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  Check out more photos and details about this series at [picture testimony] challenge.