Mar
01
by Renee Gillespie, Creative + Digital Media Specialist Frontier Fellowship is Going Beyond: Wider, Deeper and Farther to new frontiers. One of our Going Wider initiatives is to develop next-generation frontier leaders. It’s been a delight to come alongside Ryan over the past year and to see his heart...
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Feb
16
by Jim Truesdell, Associate Director Several years ago, I attended my first service at Zion Spring Baptist Church—a predominantly African-American congregation meeting in a historic building in Birmingham connected to the civil rights movement. At the start of worship, the pastor recited Psalm 138. Like people who sing...
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Jan
01
by Richard Haney, Executive Director Last month, I sent a newsletter in which I called 2023 a “big year.” I went to Egypt for the first time (March), had major heart surgery (June) and then met and welcomed my successor at Frontier Fellowship’s year-end staff retreat. But now,...
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Dec
25
WEEK FOUR | CHRISTMAS DAY | LUKE 2:30-31 John Wesley Work, Jr. (1871–1925) was a professor, college president and musicologist. He is commonly recognized as the first Black collector of slave songs and spirituals passed down in America by people of African descent. Because most of these songs...
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Dec
24
WEEK FOUR | CHRISTMAS EVE | 1 PETER 2:9, PSALM 100 There is much to celebrate as we remember the birth of Jesus. Whether in quiet moments of reflection or lively moments of singing, dancing and loud noise, it is a time of rejoicing and a time to...
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Dec
24
We have come to celebrate! It’s Christmas week and we rejoice with the angels—God and sinners are reconciled. We cannot help but Go + Tell! The well-known hymn "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" invites us to this culminating moment of the Advent season: “Joyful, all ye nations rise,...
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Dec
23
Due to publisher's permissions, we are unable to share the song lyrics for today's entry online. Visit this page for ways to interact with today's song. WEEK THREE | DAY SEVEN | ISAIAH 9:2 "Tonight darkness fell into the dawn of love's light." This beautiful word picture captures the...
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Dec
22
Due to publisher's permissions, we are unable to share the song lyrics for today's entry online. Visit this page for ways to interact with today's song. WEEK THREE | DAY SIX | MATTHEW 2:1-12 The gifts of the Magi tell the life story of the young Jesus they had...
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Dec
21
WEEK THREE | DAY FIVE | MICAH 5:2 When visiting Bethlehem, American pastor Phillips Brooks attended a Christmas Eve carol service at the site where Jesus was said to have been born. Inspired, he wrote this poem a few years later (1868) and asked his church organist, Lewis...
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Dec
20
WEEK THREE | DAY FOUR | HABAKKUK 2:20 This song, originally written in Greek, dates back as far as the 2nd century A.D. It is a reminder of our heritage and a call to awe deserving of silence as well as voices raised in praise. Based on Habakkuk...
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