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Rising Leader Series: Week 10 - The Jesus Journey
EVERYTHING OR NIL Across the globe hearts strive to lead lives worthy: Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, Jews. Christians, too, like...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 11 - The Love Way
LOVE EVERLASTING Simon Peter, fisher. Be disciple! Go away, Peter cried. I’m gripped in sin! Follow me, beloved-- fish for people! Lord,...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 12 - Truth Telling
FIRST LOVE, THEN TRUTH The tax collect cheat, Zacchaeus the short, Caught sight of visitor, crowd forming ‘round. Up tree he scampered to...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 13 - Jesus' Grace
SINNER SAUL TO SAINT PAUL With hate harbored for people of the Way, Saul hunted for converts to catch mid-flight To Damascus road he went...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 14 - The Sinner
Hey, God Hey, God, I’m pretty sure You don’t know me I’ve kept away from You as best I can Some folks say no sinner’s beyond Your mercy...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 15 - The Saint
APPLES OF GOODNESS Apples of goodness, ripe and in season If plucked with pride could cast us from Eden Warned C.S. Lewis: the greatest...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 16 - The Sojourner
I TOOK TO THE ROAD Though confusions, compulsions cluttered my soul I’d mastered contrivance to skip truth and such With casual cast of...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 17 - The Seeker
THE ARMS OF YOUR BELONGING I’ve wasted time on cheap and shallow pleasures I’ve chased for years the trappings of success I’ve sought to...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 18 - The Servant
A GOOD LIFE To college he went, then to rising career Married, three kids, until tragedy struck Widowed, he wondered: "Where do I go from...
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The Rising Leader Series: Week 19 - Doubt
WILL THAT LIGHT When a bottle, well hidden, proves worst fears When a child’s diagnosis hangs like rope When a love-bond severs in...
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The Rising Leader Series: Week 20 - Disillusionment
WHY, GOD? Ukrainian Alisa, nine years old, Was scrambling with her family ‘cross the bridge Weighed down by pack and bundled ‘gainst the...
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The Rising Leader Series: Week 21 - Depression
THE PIT A quick lightning strike of thunderclap sorrow Blunt struck her to the ground as if by thief Then stole her meager claim on...
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The Rising Leader Series: Week 22 - Despair
PRODIGAL’S REUNION The younger son demanded half estate Then fled to distant country to debauch To teach himself new levels of self-hate...
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The Rising Leader Series: Week 23 - Behind the Mask
UNMASK What Mardi Gras, Halloween life you lead! Veiled behind intricate, desperate mask Vanity’s folly would be to succeed In your...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 24– Beyond Myself
TURN OVER GENTLE Turn over gentle now, gentle that loam Clay covers my soul; it traps me alone Underneath it, I’ve nursed fears on my own...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 25– Behold the Beauty
I JUST LEFT I just left; she was on her bed-on-wheels Surgery beckons; they've come to roll her in Hope, fright, powerlessness, plea--...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 26– Become the Beauty
DIVINE BEAUTY Maples dewed and firelit welcome Fall’s day Canyon grand enacts its vast color-play Arm-cradle warms by breath of sleeping...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 27 – Sacred Democracy
THE FLICKERED TORCH OF LIBERTY In the end, America’s built on trust– that servants serve, that votes are counted fair– that once the hot...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 28 – Democracy: Individual Liberty; Equal Vote
SACRED DEMOCRACY What shame I felt when witnessed Jesus flag waved high by mob that knocked down freedom’s door What pain to see my...
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Rising Leader Series: Week 29 – Democracy: Equal Justice
THE LAW, THE LOCK AND THE KEY By vote we choose the ones who write our laws By rule of law our nation keeps the peace Peace officers...
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