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“Meet the doctor who still makes house calls — in Chicago’s most dangerous neighborhoods”
A son of Englewood on Chicago’s South Side, Richardson has been a solo practitioner of family medicine since 1990. Throughout that time, he has been doing what he did on that Tuesday night: grabbing his scuffed, black, leather bag and making house calls primarily in the city’s most dangerous neighborhoods.
“this is a gospel issue because we’re all created in the image of God and redeemed equally”
Christian leaders speak out about Eric Garner, race, and reconciliation.
“Ferguson, Obama, and what’s next”
Anyabwile in the TGC:
How I wish the Pres had ended his comments and what I pray the remaining movement would commit itself to.
“As our personality becomes reorganized around God and his eternal life, self-denial becomes our settled disposition”
— Dallas Willard
“Caring for ebola patients”
We were made for caring, but we cannot care without risk.
“Why plant churches”
Ed Stetzer in CT:
When the apostles and disciples heard the Great Commission, they did not just evangelize. They congregationalized.
“Church and art”
Let’s invest in “art-making that over decades yields a winsome Christian presence in art and entertainment.”
“some days leave me feeling more like Clark Griswold than the Apostle Paul”
“God doesn’t just make people better. He makes people new.”
— Jodi Hickerson
“Bottle rockets”
Kids and cousins and bottle rockets and slow mo
“Youth ministry is successful when students graduate knowing who they are in Christ”
— Mike Hickerson
“Work that is truly Christian is work well done”
— R. Kent Hughes
“Suffering, joy, life, and death”
Don’t accept [the] premise that choices about life and death should be based on the presence or absence of suffering.