Each New Year’s Day since 2014, I’ve chosen three words to give me focus and direction for the upcoming year. Coming out of the most troubling year of my lifetime, the pandemic year of 2020, one overarching word that the world needs is hope. We have that hope in the Gospel, but it’s so easy to forget …
From CE USA Director Alan Avera: A few years ago, my son forwarded me a New Year’s blog by Christopher Penn, introducing a “3-word exercise” for the new year. Slightly different than the typical New Year’s resolutions, these three words are chosen to reflect a desired character growth or aspirational value you want to see …
Those who have followed this blog for the past several years know that I like to start each new year with three words to guide me for the coming year (2015, 2016, 2017). These three words are not resolutions, but words that serve as a way to bring focus to my goals and efforts for …
As the new year began several years ago, I chose three words to guide me in the year ahead. These words related to my larger goals and my sense of vocation – my sense of how the Lord is uniquely calling me. It’s a practice I continue each year. It started when my son Mark pointed …
Last month, we shared a story from Joy Frey, a Christianity Explored course leader at Wallenstein Bible Chapel in Ontario. Joy has led dozens of people to Christ both through CE courses at her church and one-to-one coaching through an online version of CE offered by BGEA. Her testimony is one of perseverance, love, and …
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