I wish you could meet some of the people who work at CCEF. We are, of course, far from perfect, but we see Christ in each other, and we see evidence of the Spirit in the way the Lord forges a community among us. One place this happens is at our morning prayer meetings where a different person leads each time we gather. I will take one morning at random as a way to invite you in.
Brandon led this one. He has been married for four years but he has been a student and now staff at CCEF for nine. This means that many of us witnessed the early days of his relationship with his wife and have prayed often for them. We also had insider information about his plans to fly out one weekend to ask her to marry him. Now, married, they have a one-year-old daughter. At this prayer meeting he had a complicated mission: he knew we had to have at least one ridiculously cute story about his daughter; since he is a walking historian, he needed to offer some interesting anecdote from the past; and we wanted him to direct us as we considered Scripture
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