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UNBLOGGER: An interview with Darrell Vesterfelt

June 17, 2013 — Leave a comment

Today, NoSuperHeroes welcomes Darrell Vesterfelt, president of Prodigal Magazine.

Darrell recently published an Ebook entitled UNBLOGGER: Discovering the Power of Story in a ‘How-To’ World which core message will resonate with the NoSuperHeroes audience.

NoSuperHeroes: Darrell, tell us a little about yourself.

Darrell: I am just a normal guy. In the past couple of years, I have decided that I wanted a little more out of life. With my wife, I started an online publication called Prodigal Magazine. We have had some fun and success running this platform, taking it to over 100,000 monthly readers.

NoSuperHeroes: What is the heart behind “UNBLOGGER”? Read more... (518 words, 2 images, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

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Money for Missionaries: Which Truth?

June 12, 2013 — Leave a comment

The Bible is full of truth.

Sometimes, the challenge lies in which blend of truth to apply. Many of these tensions surround missions and money.

Let me present three areas missionaries deal with.

1. Raising support as a missionary or minister.
2. Being generous to the poor and needy.
3. Saving money for your future, children’s education, and ultimately an inheritance.

All these areas are supported by a multitude of Scripture. We cannot pick and choose our favorite, but rather find a way to apply an aspect of all these truths.

By: epSos .de

As believers and missionaries, we tell people they can’t pick and choose which truths to apply. Neither can we.

As missionaries we need to have a degree of application stemming from all these truths in our life.

I would go so far to say all missionaries need to wrestle with issues of financial support, being generous to the poor, and saving for our future. Neglecting any of these is neglecting a part of the Word of God. Read more... (266 words, 1 image, estimated 1:04 mins reading time)

In Bible, Missions & Cross-Cultural Bible, family, leadership, missionary, missions, money

What is the Meaning of Life?

June 10, 2013 — Leave a comment

What is the meaning of life? Why are we really here?

These are questions making ask today. Solomon asked the same question in the book of Ecclesiastes. At first glance, we can be easily caught up with words like “vanity”, “toil”, “meaningless”, and “chasing the wind” found in this writing.

These are all depressing terms listed in Ecclesiastes. It can seem, that apart from the last verse, the book has its conclusion in despair.

All seems meaningless until we get to the final passage.

Ecclesiastes 12:13 says, “The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man”

By: momo

This book is a comparison of two ways of living.

The author uses the term “under the sun” to describe one of the worldviews. A life lived this way ends in “toil”, “vanity”, and ultimately is “meaningless”. Even the best life has to offer, ends up meaningless without God. Read more... (464 words, 2 images, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

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You Don’t Work for an Inheritance

June 6, 2013 — Leave a comment

I was reading a portion of Michael Horton’s book, Gospel-Driven Life, The: Being Good News People in a Bad News World, the other day.

A portion jumped out at me and I felt it was worth sharing. Listen to Horton describe the gift of grace.

“God does not simply create the gift and offer it to us, if we will only climb the stairway to heaven to get it; he brings it down to us, uncurls our ungrateful fingers, and places it in our hands. In our naive works righteousness, we will always look for methods of pulling God down out of heaven or for bringing Christ up from the dead. The hardest thing in the world for us even as believers in Christ is to sit down and receive something.”

A few paragraphs later he compare this amazing gift to receiving an inheritance as a part of someone’s last will and testament. Read more... (427 words, 1 image, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

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In an Elevator with Desmond Tutu

May 29, 2013 — Leave a comment

An ordinary trip to the doctor’s with my family turned special.

As we were walking towards the elevator in an underground parking structure, I saw a small, older gentleman walking towards the elevator. My first thought was, “That looks like Desmond Tutu!” I motioned to my wife and whispered to her, wondering if she would confirm my suspicions

As we entered the elevator together, a nurse saw him, greeting the bishop. It was then he laughed his trademark laugh. I knew.

My wife asked if our boys could shake his hand telling them he was a very special man. The bishop quickly downplayed our compliments, shaking hands with our kids.

“Would you like a picture?” he offered.

As we turned to leave for our floor, I was able to thank Desmond Tutu for what he had done for South Africa and bless God for Him. Read more... (555 words, 2 images, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)