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A Great Update from The Dash Network!

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DASH (DFW Asylum Seeker Housing), the Rooted’s way to provide housing for asylum seekers, is up and going! Below is an email that Ashley (Director of DASH)  forwarded me written to Solomon, the first asylum seeker being placed. Praise God for his providence and care for us all!

Also, Solomon will be moving into his largely unfurnished apartment on Sunday. If you have any household items you would like to donate, please bring them to church on Sunday or comment below so we can make arrangements.

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“Fatherhood is Building the Riverbanks”


Listen to Pastor Crawford Loritts speak a great message on “Lessons Learned from My Father.” I particularly appreciate how he relates fatherhood to building riverbanks. Like the mighty waters of a river, life will come and things will happen, but fathers are the ones who set the parameters, who define the boundaries, who steer the direction of their childrens’ lives towards Jesus and godliness. Dads, give it a listen.

A few quotes:

  • “Greatness is not pop or fad. Greatness has a staying power.”
  • “Manhood is not a private matter. It is a public thing. A man aspires to be the desired destination at which others arrive.”
  • “This summarizes my dad: Stepping up, never walking away, if it belongs to you, you do something with it.”
  • “There is a correlation between being a man and keeping promises.”
  • “Our disproportionate desire for relevance is injecting embalming fluid into the next generation.”
  • “Out of struggle comes strength; out of strength comes discipline; out of discipline comes integrity; out of integrity comes inheritance.”
  • “How people treat you should never define you. It’s not what people call you, but what you answer to.”
  • “All we have to give to the next generation is what we have become.”
  • “You don’t produce the fruit of the Spirit. It is the fruit of the Spirit.”
  • “Repent of wallowing in our self pity and deifying our disfunction. Yield. ‘God, I can’t do this. Help me!’ Believe him.”

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The 3 Best Books I Read Last Year

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At this time last year I set a goal to read 50 books in 2011. I didn’t meet my goal, which I’m okay with, but I did still read a lot of books. Some were not worth the paper they’re printed on, some had a few tasty morsels but not enough to deserve a book-length treatment, many were good, a few were great. My 3 favorites are all books I think any Christian would benefit from reading, so maybe you’ll want to put one or two in your Amazon basket.

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