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A Liturgy for When a Loved One Is Ailing Back Home

Bradley Bell

Oct 16, 20222 min read

A Liturgy for When a Loved One Is Ailing Back Home

Father, when first I set sail on this life in another land, I believed your promise, that for every house brother sister father mother...

Bradley Bell

Jul 4, 20223 min read

A Liturgy for Raising Support

O Lord, I have set my face like flint. I am prepared to take a step out of the boat of financial certainty— at least the certainty that...

A Liturgy for Missionaries During the Holidays

Bradley Bell

Dec 23, 20213 min read

A Liturgy for Missionaries During the Holidays

We hope this liturgy written by Upstream's Bradley Bell is an encouragement to you. This may be prayed alone, but it could be more...

Why the Christian Life Is More Like a Castle Than a Catapult

Daniel Ryan

Dec 20, 20215 min read

Why the Christian Life Is More Like a Castle Than a Catapult

Introduction He stood in front of about seventy of us, Bible in hand. “The lost are dying, thousands every day. And they’re going to a...

Unlocked, Part 2: Walk as Strangers and Exiles

Anonymous

Jul 20, 20204 min read

Unlocked, Part 2: Walk as Strangers and Exiles

At a time when your lives may seem chaotic and in absolute upheaval, here are three truths to cling to for encouragement and comfort.

Unlocked, Part 1: Encouragement for Moving Forward Out of Lockdown

Anonymous

Jul 16, 20207 min read

Unlocked, Part 1: Encouragement for Moving Forward Out of Lockdown

How do we walk through this pandemic together and come out on the other side in a way that honors and glorifies God?

The God Who is Near All People: A Meditation on Acts 17:15-34, Part Two

Bradley Bell

May 20, 20193 min read

The God Who is Near All People: A Meditation on Acts 17:15-34, Part Two

BY DIRECTOR OF CONTENT, BRADLEY BELL So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every...

Andy Jansen

Apr 22, 20195 min read

How to Waste Your Life Beautifully

By Andy Jansen You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake. And you became imitators of us and of the Lord…So,...

The God Who is Near All People: A Meditation on Acts 17:15-34, Part One

Bradley Bell

Apr 1, 20193 min read

The God Who is Near All People: A Meditation on Acts 17:15-34, Part One

By Director of Content, Bradley Bell When God is Near, You See the World Differently Remember the first time you saw a big city? For me,...

A Great Communion in The Great Commission

debbie4034

Mar 30, 20185 min read

A Great Communion in The Great Commission

Written by Derick Sherfey, Director of Content Strategy It’s Good Friday & Easter weekend. (but you probably already knew that…) This...

Andy Jansen

Dec 25, 20172 min read

God Spoke: Meditating on Advent

By Andy Jansen God spoke, and we heard him. There was such an accord between his speech and the truth that it was true. And it was good....