NGLC Happenings
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Janine James: I Will Remember Them
This blog post was written in January of 2020. At the time, I wasn’t personally grieving anything, but the Lord laid this scripture on my heart. I wrote it on Friday and scheduled it to post the following Monday. That Sunday, the tragic news of Kobe Bryant, his...
Jonathan Pugh: Heavenly Conversation With the Saints
“Then I saw in my Dream they went very lovingly on together, and had sweet discourse of all things that had happened to them in their Pilgrimage;” – from John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress Pilgrim’s Progress has served many generations of Christians as an encouraging...
Justin Chambers: My First Time At NextGen
I was invited by Yvonne Miller and she didn’t have a great explanation of what NextGen was but the invitation was there. Thanks, Yvonne! I wasn’t sure what to expect. The place I was at, the things God was doing, I really didn’t think I needed to upset my schedule...
Chris Brown: Processing My Heart for Christmas
Recently as I was at my first “in person” Nextgen conference, I was there to just be. I had not gotten permission to do that in a long time. As I was listening to some of the speakers, I was taking in so much. I was learning and processing. At one point both...
Nancy W.: Don’t Take Away Nothing
The conference ended, as I knew it would, on Friday night with hugs all around and tears shared with new friends and old, not wanting to leave the precious gathering of sojourners who stopped for a mere week of respite. NGLC 2021, a time to drink deep from the well of...
Kim Olachea: When Jesus Shows Up
My husband had been to Israel several times, leading group tours. It was my first time. In addition to my fear of flying, I was afraid that I would not have the life changing experience others seemed to have had. What if it didn’t happen for me? Each day brought new...
Shevi Sloane: Resist the Exist
Howard Hughes was a talent larger than life. An inventor in his teenage years. A movie producer and aeronautical engineer in his twenties and thirties. And, a billionaire tycoon in his fifties. He produced some of the most famous movies of the twenties and...
Dave R.: How Much Are We Hearing What Jesus Calls Us To Do?
Nik Ripkin notes that in the most needy and risky places on earth women field activists outnumber men by seven to one. He thinks he knows why. The model of success presented to men in gospel service is the megachurch pastor. If men who yearn for that are dumb enough...
Virgil Tanner: The Individual and the Ecosystem
Learning to be wise…when the tension is to divide Always, there are two things to be mindful of: the individual and the environment. Naivete leads us to see one over the other. Wisdom hard-won sees them as inextricably linked. As I watch American news feeds from the...