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  • Advent Activities for the Refugee Crisis

    I want to prepare for this advent season. I want to remember why I am a Christian. I want to recognize Christ in the suffering and the marginalized.
    November 30, 2015
  • Prayers for Paris...and Beirut...and Baghdad

    I stayed up late last night reading every snippet of information I could on the attack on Paris. I watched the death toll number rise. Finally, begrudgingly, I rose off the couch and headed to bed. I...
    November 14, 2015
  • Immigration Preaching Challenge Finalists

    This summer, North American pastors received an invitation to submit sermons related to the topic of immigration. Many pastors accepted the challenge and submitted their sermons, and we have now...
    November 11, 2015
  • Jesus Work

    When explaining the ministry of Humanity for Prisoners in many of my public presentations, I refer to our daily advocacy as “Jesus Work.” I know that, in the minds of many people, the thought response...
    August 17, 2015
  • Immigration Preaching Challenge

    Have you ever talked about immigration from the pulpit? We encourage you to participate in the Immigration Preaching Challenge. Keep reading to learn more about the contest, discover immigration resources, and learn how you can incorporate immigration into your preaching.
    May 7, 2015
  • Ash and Oil: Easter!

    The resurrection is central to our faith! “If Jesus is not raised from the dead,” Paul says, “then our faith is futile.” In fact, he goes on to say, “We of all people are most to be pitied!” (1 Cor...
    April 6, 2015
  • Ash and Oil: April 3

    At the sixth hour darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? … With a loud cry, Jesus...
    April 3, 2015
  • Ash and Oil: April 1

    For I am about to create new heavens and a new earth…But be glad and rejoice for ever in what I am creating; for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy, and its people as a delight... No more shall...
    April 1, 2015
  • Ash and Oil: March 30

    “O LORD, who may abide in your tent? Who may dwell on your holy hill? Those who walk blamelessly, and do what is right, and speak the truth from their heart…” (Psalm 15:1-2) Tomorrow is César Chávez...
    March 30, 2015
  • Ash and Oil: March 27

    When a great crowd gathered and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable: ‘A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell on the path and was trampled on, and the...
    March 27, 2015
  • Ash and Oil: March 25

    Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city. On either side of the river is...
    March 25, 2015
  • Ash and Oil: March 23

    We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. (Rom. 8:22) God uses creation to speak to us. He put a rainbow in the sky as a sign of his...
    March 23, 2015