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One-Time Conversion or Ongoing Transformation?
As Catholics we sometimes recoil at this kind of talk. Our experience grounds us in a more communal, sacramental, and gradual process of initiation rites and sanctification, beginning at baptism…
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An Exercise in Noticing
If you don’t really know someone, how can you truly love him/her? Do you know his/her answers to the following questions? Perhaps take them to prayer. Perhaps ask him/her—even if…
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Preparing Good Questions
Good questions are a critical ingredient in all great discussions. Jesus himself was the master questioner, often responding to questions with deeper questions.[1] Questions open us to God and one…
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EC Impact: Warren
“EC training has helped me to be more comfortable and confident in sharing my faith in an organic way.” “EC training has helped me to be more comfortable and confident…
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EC Impact: Kristen
“These one-on-ones helped me to recognize Jesus’ love for me for the first time and taught me that someone cared enough to share this with me and teach me.” Celebrations of…
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EC Impact: Colleen
“God is truly reaching more in this work.” Colleen serves the Church and the U.S.A. as a military spouse, most recently at Camp Pendleton Marine Base. In sharing her…
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How Small Groups Build a Movement
Relational Ministry Small groups work because they are rooted in relationships, not in organizational structures or edifices. Within the relationships people want and need, they find what they didn’t know…
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Evangelizing through Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving
Here are our top 5 evangelical Lenten resolutions for 2017, directly from EC Staff: Resolution One: PRAYER Take the 1% Challenge: 15 minutes daily in God’s Word I love early…
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Lenten Reflection 2016
So, I’m going to reflect on just that: my own poverty. And what a perfect time Lent is to experience and reflect on our own spiritual poverty. As I prayed…
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I Dreamt that My Son Died – A Good Friday Meditation
It seems eminently clear that the more perfect one’s love is, the more pain lies in wait. The longer couples date, the more the break-up hurts. The closer the relative,…
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