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31 Days: 5 Ways to Offer Outrageous Hospitality {without cooking!}

A text from a friend this week: I ❤  ur 31 days but I hate to cook. 🙁 My reply: then don’t 🙂 {What is it with women and emoji?} 5 Ways to Offer Outrageous Hospitality {without cooking!} All these ideas came from a walk through my neighborhood yesterday. Real people doing their thing. 1. Meet a need. My neighbors installed a…
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31 Days: Simple Gifts

    Remember way back to last week when I shared I wanted to be like Ludmilla? I wondered if I could place a plaque next to the entrance of our home ~ Embassy of the Kingdom of Heaven? Well, I’m pretty sure that this week, I’m more qualified to slap a bumper sticker on the minivan that reads Queen…
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31 Days: Hokey Family Traditions

Last night after supper — frozen taquitos from Whole Foods, by the way — the Littles and I went for a walk in our neighborhood. The long awaited cool front, there’s never really a cold one in Austin, blew in over the weekend the Littles declared an after supper walk a must. “It’s a tradition!” one of them shouted already…
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31 Days: You Can’t Be What You Can’t See

A couple years ago I attended the Verge Network Conference right here in Austin. The mission of the conference that year was Discipleship. I sat in awe as speaker after speaker filled my cup. One of the speakers, Jo Saxton, left such an impression on me I quote a single line from her speech almost daily. In her talk An…
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31 Days: Extending the Table: A World Community Cookbook

It’s early Saturday morning. I woke up around 5:00 am, tried to read a little bit and then promptly fell back to sleep. It felt good. Clearly, I’m tired. Last night was the first Friday night since May that our entire family of six were all in town and at home. No traveling, no sleepovers, no football game, no nothing….
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31 Days: When It’s Your Turn to Receive Outrageous Hospitality

“We always treat guests as angels, just in case.” Brother Jeremiah, early Christian monk   When you say “yes” to God, allowing him to teach you about outrageous hospitality, He doesn’t disappoint. In the span of one week, I’ve learned more than my fair share of what outrageous hospitality can look like. I’ve witnessed a community pulling together to be…
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I'm on a mission to love my neighbors. I put an ordinary picnic table in my front yard, painted it turquoise and invited neighbors, friends, and even strangers to hang out and do life together at the Turquoise Table®.

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