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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Jul 1, 2015 11:50:15 AM
The interviews for this month’s cover story yielded some great insight on the subject of freedom. Particularly intriguing to me was how drastically...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Apr 1, 2015 11:50:28 AM
There’s a good kind of tired. You know what I mean? That kind of tired where you’ve put in a full day of hard, physical work. You got dirty. You...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Feb 1, 2015 10:50:19 AM
Myth: To be a person who disciples others, you have to have it all together. Truth: No one has it all together. Myth: Only a select group of...
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James Bishop: Dec 1, 2014 10:50:39 AM
“And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness…” Deuteronomy 8:2.
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Nov 1, 2014 11:50:53 AM
The word “bread” is often used as a synonym for sustenance. “Bread and water” describe the bare minimum given to prisoners in dungeons of old. The...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Sep 1, 2014 11:50:27 AM
Homelessness does not happen overnight, and it will not be solved overnight. Taking a homeless person and putting him into an apartment will not...
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Union Gospel Mission: Jul 1, 2014 11:55:05 AM
“Jesus was tough on sinners who refused to forgive other sinners. In the final sum, we give grace because we’ve been given grace.” – Max Lucado If...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Jan 1, 2014 10:58:30 AM
I’m amazed at what can change in a person’s life in a little over a year’s time when he or she aggressively pursues recovery. Consider the cover...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Oct 1, 2013 11:37:32 AM
“Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering,”...
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Union Gospel Mission: Sep 1, 2013 11:59:25 AM
Here are the words of Jesus my staff and I are focusing on this fall: “For I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Feb 1, 2013 4:35:00 PM
“There are no safe paths in this part of the world” – the wizard Gandalf in master storyteller J.R.R. Tolkien’s tale, The Hobbit.
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Union Gospel Mission: Dec 31, 2012 11:00:36 PM
I have an antique brass level sitting in my office where I will see it frequently and be reminded of the importance of balancing two essential...
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Union Gospel Mission: Sep 1, 2012 12:00:18 PM
We had a sod party last month to prepare for the opening of the new Center for Women and Children in Idaho. Lots of people showed up, and as they...
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Union Gospel Mission: Jul 3, 2012 12:00:45 PM
Recently, my wife, Caryl, and I were sitting in a Florida airport waiting for a flight back to Spokane when a group of twenty to thirty uniformed...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Apr 1, 2012 12:01:00 PM
“You have made us for Yourself so that our hearts are restless until they rest in You.” – Saint Augustine Augustine, one of the early church fathers,...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Mar 28, 2012 12:01:00 PM
“There, but for the grace of God, go I.” I hear that statement – generally attributed to a 16th century evangelist named John Bradford – all the...
