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Read Colossians 1:9-14 In the movie Dan in Real Life (a personal favorite), the main character Dan is a columnist who writes about childrearing and other family-related musings. He is thunderstruck when his 15-year-old daughter “falls in love” with a boy she’s only known for three days. The boy shows up at their family vacation home and Dan finds the two teens snogging by the beach, so naturally, he sends the boy home. Dan

Read:  Colossians 1:1-8 In the summer of 1996 I went on my first international mission trip to a small town in the heart of Poland. I went with about 60 of my closest friends and our mission was to help a small Baptist church reach out to their community by helping them run their vacation Bible school in the mornings and then performing concerts in public squares and auditoriums during the afternoons.  I had

In the 1964 book Notes on the Synthesis of Form, architect Christopher Alexander describes how good designs are made of self-contained systems; you don't want interdependence for everything in a building. For example, the structure of the kitchen shouldn't determine the layout of the bathroom above it. Instead, the kitchen and the bathroom should be independent. The shape of the front door is unrelated to the layout of the living room: they are independent of one another.  This book that encourages independent design elements has been influential