This is a post I wrote last year around this time. It seems quite timely on the eve of Black Friday. This is a great season to allow our values to be reflected in the way we spend our money. It is so important for those of us who have endless products at our disposal …
Author Archives: Jon Huckins
The Science of Storytelling and Listening
This article was originally posted on Fuller Youth Institute’s website. For full list of statistic sources, click here. Although I’ve spent one semester as a seventh and eighth grade science teacher, I don’t claim to be a scientist. In fact, in high school and college, it was the subject I avoided the most. Years later, …
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Tragic Realities in the Midst of Hope
This has been a strange week in the international life of NieuCommunities. Within days of each other, we had two stirring incidents take place on opposite sides of the world. One of our sites is in Pretoria, South Africa. While developing young Church leaders, our team has been diving deep into the local context, which …
When Dreams Meet Reality: Life in Intentional Community
After years of being a youth pastor, I remember the time I came home from yet another event that required endless administration, energy and resources and asked myself, “Is this what it means to be the Church? And if so, there have to be better ways to embody the supposed life-giving, relational aspects of Jesus …
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Book Giveaway: The One Sentence Story Showdown!
So here is the deal… I’m looking to give away some copies of my book, Teaching Through the Art of Storytelling and in order to pass around the love, we are going to write a shared story one sentence at a time. How it works: I will start by writing the first sentence of …
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