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Ephesians 3:20
20Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
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In the winter of 1991, a cellist named Margaret Kimura sat in her Chicago apartment with an eviction notice on the kitchen table. She had...
Margaret Alvarez set one extra plate at her kitchen table in 1987. That was all — one plate for a boy named DeShawn who couldn't...
In 1930, Gladys Aylward stood before the China Inland Mission board in London and received their verdict: rejected. She lacked the education, the language aptitude,...
In 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision his colleagues called a waste of time. He pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a tiny patch...
In 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a request that his colleagues thought was wasteful. He asked to point the Hubble Space Telescope at a tiny,...
In 2015, Rashida Williams started baking sweet potato pies in her basement kitchen in Detroit. She had one goal: earn enough to keep the lights...
In the spring of 1987, Ruth Caldwell knelt in the cracked soil behind her rowhouse in Baltimore and planted twelve tomato seedlings. She was sixty-three,...
In 1987, Margaret Fielding of Decatur, Georgia, cleared out her spare bedroom and told her pastor she could host one missionary passing through town. She...
In 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson at Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey, had a modest problem. Their radio antenna picked up a persistent...
When Katie Davis moved to Uganda at nineteen, she planned to teach kindergarten for a year. One year of service, one small classroom, one modest...
In December 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision his colleagues thought was foolish. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he chose to...
In 1987, Margaret Hollis of Birmingham, England, cleared out her back bedroom and placed a single twin mattress on the floor. She told her pastor...
When Oswald Chambers died suddenly in Cairo in 1917 at the age of forty-three, his wife Biddy faced an unimaginable loss. She was a trained...
When Katie Davis booked a one-way ticket to Uganda at nineteen, she had a modest plan: teach kindergarten for a year, maybe sponsor a few...
In 2018, third-grade teacher Maria Hernandez in East Los Angeles asked her principal for a small raised bed so her students could grow radishes for...
In 1930, Gladys Aylward knelt beside her narrow bed in a London parlor maid's quarters and asked God for one thing: passage to China. The...
When Katie Davis moved to Uganda at nineteen, she had a simple plan: teach kindergarten for a year, then come home to Nashville and finish...
In 1823, a schoolboy named Johann planted an acorn in his family's garden outside Dresden, Germany. He wanted a climbing tree — something to swing...
In 1930, Gladys Aylward was a parlor maid in London earning barely enough to survive. The China Inland Mission had rejected her — too old...
In 1836, George Müller opened a rented house on Wilson Street in Bristol, England, with room for thirty orphans. He had no salary, no fundraising...
"The gospel exceeds! We ask for forgiveness; God gives righteousness. We imagine acceptance; He gives sonship. We hope for mercy; He gives inheritance. Immeasurably more—this is grace upon grace. God's giving always exceeds our receiving." — Martin Luther. Lutheran: gospel overflow.
"We imagine restoration; God is doing new creation—immeasurably more! The power at work is resurrection power; the result is renewed cosmos. We ask for healing; He gives new bodies. We imagine heaven; He gives heaven and earth united. Always more." — N.T.
"More than we imagine—including justice we cannot yet envision. God's shalom exceeds our best social programs; His kingdom surpasses our progressive dreams. The power at work is for transformation beyond our categories. Imagine justice; God does immeasurably more." — Walter Brueggemann.
"Our mission strategies are too small! God does immeasurably more than we plan, more than we expect, more than we imagine possible. The power at work in mission exceeds our programs. Expect God to surprise; He is doing more than we know." — Lesslie Newbigin.