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Faith • Biblical Reflections

Missio on Grumbling: America, de Tocqueville, and Complaining

Ryan Burns | 5 min read

I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers – and it was not there . . . in her fertile fields and boundless forests and it was not there . . . in her rich mines and her vast world commerce – and it was not...

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Faith • Biblical Reflections

Missio on Grumbling: Reframing the Mundane

Mary Mitchum | 4 min read

Walk into the office, ask my supervisor how I can help today, get a long list of tasks ranging from papers to file, emails to return, excel spreadsheets to create, and then after a few minutes of small talk, go to my isolated office, sit down at my desk, and get to work on my...

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Vocation • On Daily Work

Missio on Grumbling: Noticing the Manna God Provides

Michelle Bendit | 4 min read

Numbers 11 recounts a terrible yet far too familiar story of discontentment, ingratitude, and the resulting anger of God being administered. The sobering conclusion of the passage begins to put into perspective how seriously the Lord takes these things. While God does send meat to the desperate, complaining Israelites, he strikes down those who craved...

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Faith • Biblical Reflections

Missio on Grumbling (Numbers 11)

Rev. Dr. Bill Fullilove | 3 min read

It must be one of our favorite pastimes as a culture: complaining about our work.  Grumbling.  And certainly there are times where complaint is legitimate, where things at work are unjust.  But there are also plenty of times where we become accustomed to work, and as we become accustomed we start to fixate on the...

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