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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Jun 11, 2021 3:57:18 PM
We are a forgetful people. We forget how broken the world is in which we live. We forget how much we are loved by a good God. We forget the sinister...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Mar 31, 2021 2:13:34 PM
When I learned that this newsletter was to have a gospel focus and that the team wanted to use old hymns to help tell the story… well, I was happy....
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Jan 8, 2021 12:54:14 PM
Did you ever watch the “Fantastic Four” when you were a kid?
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Nov 10, 2020 12:03:00 PM
Comparing 2020 to the plagues in Egypt might be an exaggeration, but it has certainly been one of the more difficult years in my lifetime: global...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Sep 14, 2020 12:44:58 PM
“As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” – Proverbs 23:7.
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Mar 10, 2020 5:45:19 PM
We are nearing one of my favorite times of the year: the celebration of Christ’s resurrection from the dead! He is risen. He is risen indeed. Without...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Jan 9, 2020 1:04:47 PM
“I think we’re all made to find our significance by being attached to the ultimate. All human beings are created to attach their tiny, little lives...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Sep 10, 2019 11:10:09 AM
Imagine committing to a smoking cessation program right before going on a road trip with a pair of chain smokers. Imagine trying to avoid sugar while...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Mar 14, 2019 9:48:06 AM
“You’re stupid.” “You will never amount to anything.” “You’re a failure.” When you’ve grown up hearing lies, you begin to believe them. Your mind and...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Jan 14, 2019 1:01:59 PM
As I reflect back on 2018, my overwhelming reaction is one of gratitude: gratitude for God’s faithfulness, your partnership, the lost who have come...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Nov 7, 2018 12:35:06 PM
“The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light.” – Isaiah 9:2 Generally, I'm an optimist. I see what is possible. I dream and make big...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Jun 4, 2018 5:26:40 PM
I had a teacher in sixth grade who thought she’d motivate me to try harder in school by giving me straight Ds. It didn’t motivate me. Quite the...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Mar 8, 2018 1:54:05 PM
“If you, O Lord, kept a record of sins, who could stand?” This is the Gospel. All of humanity is under a curse. No matter how hard we try, we can...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Jan 15, 2018 1:35:42 PM
2017 was a year of strengthening and solidifying ministry work throughout UGM. Frankly, it all started by identifying some weak areas and...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Nov 16, 2017 11:19:07 AM
Tasked with raising five boys, my mom was an expert at energy management. She knew we needed to keep busy. She played baseball with us, worked...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Sep 11, 2017 11:59:41 AM
Editor's Note: This column was originally published in The Spokesman-Review on September 10, 2017. An abbreviated version of this quote by author...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Jul 11, 2017 2:40:35 PM
“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” - Proverbs 4:23 The heart. What an important, complicated, mysterious thing....
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Apr 5, 2017 5:04:00 PM
“What the world needs now is love, sweet love.”* We couldn’t agree more, but not the wimpy, conditional love the world has to offer – not love based...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Jan 17, 2017 1:11:35 PM
In 2010, UGM leadership undertook the monumental task of creating our first strategic plan. We started by taking a hard look at our purpose...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Dec 1, 2016 9:23:00 AM
We talk a lot in Christian circles about the commercialization of Christmas and the damage it has done. You’ll get no argument from me on the...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Jul 5, 2016 11:50:26 AM
“The best social program is a job.”
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: May 12, 2016 12:45:17 PM
I remember the day very clearly. I was a junior at Northwest Nazarene University, walking across campus…I can even tell you the spot on campus where...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Oct 5, 2015 12:15:00 PM
This story has become a bit of an urban legend, but its veracity is authenticated by Snopes.com.
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Sep 1, 2015 11:50:05 AM
We have been using the slogan “Hope starts here” for years now, and I’ve always thought I got it, but after a recent trip to a major metropolitan...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Aug 5, 2015 3:25:00 AM
When it comes to failure, the question is not if but when. We all fail. Every. Single. Day. Sometimes those failures are the result of taking healthy...
