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UPSTREAM BLOG
The Upstream Blog is published two times a week and contains content from missions leaders, pastors, missiologists, and the Upstream team on a wide variety of topics pertaining to being a sending church. Leave us some comments or questions!
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
Oct 17, 20222 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...
Bradley Bell
Jul 4, 20223 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...
Bradley Bell
Dec 23, 20213 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...
Daniel Ryan
Dec 20, 20215 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.
Anonymous
Jul 20, 20204 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?
Anonymous
Jul 16, 20207 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...
Bradley Bell
May 20, 20193 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,...
Andy Jansen
Apr 22, 20195 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,...
Bradley Bell
Apr 1, 20193 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...
debbie4034
Mar 30, 20185 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....
Andy Jansen
Dec 25, 20172 min read
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