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The Laundromat on Franklin Avenue

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Every Tuesday night, Maria Santos unlocks the doors of Spin Cycle Laundromat on Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis and puts up a hand-lettered sign: "Free Wash...

This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Isaiah 58:1-12.

Every Tuesday night, Maria Santos unlocks the doors of Spin Cycle Laundromat on Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis and puts up a hand-lettered sign: "Free Wash Night." By six o'clock, the plastic chairs are full — single mothers with garbage bags of kids' clothes, elderly men from the shelter on Third Street, a teenage girl who has been wearing the same hoodie for two weeks.…

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Isaiah 58:1-12 — Universal (classic)

Isaiah 58:1-12 Luke 16:19-31, the text presses one question: will we trust God’s Word and live it?

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Isaiah 58:1-12 — Traditional (edgy)

Isaiah 58:1-12 Timothy 3:14-4:5 exposes counterfeit faith—right words without repentance are still rebellion—today, not someday.

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Isaiah 58:1-12 — Traditional (classic)

Isaiah 58:1-12 1:1-4; 2:1-4 reminds the Church: God’s Word forms God’s people through worship, holiness, and mission.

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Isaiah 58:1-12 — Arminian/Wesleyan (pastoral)

Isaiah 58:1-12 2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12, God’s love meets you before you’re ready—and strengthens you to say yes.

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