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...
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UPSTREAM BLOG
The Upstream Collective 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!
Bradley Bell
- Jul 4, 2022
- 3 min
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...
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Bradley Bell
- Dec 23, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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Daniel Ryan
- Dec 20, 2021
- 5 min
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...
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Anonymous
- Jul 20, 2020
- 4 min
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.
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Anonymous
- Jul 16, 2020
- 7 min
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?
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Bradley Bell
- May 20, 2019
- 3 min
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...
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Andy Jansen
- Apr 22, 2019
- 5 min
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,...
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Bradley Bell
- Apr 1, 2019
- 3 min
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,...
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debbie4034
- Mar 30, 2018
- 5 min
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...
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Andy Jansen
- Dec 25, 2017
- 2 min
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....
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