Contents

Act Boldly for Mission
In this issue, we continue to explore how we can act boldly to take part in God's mission.

Sharing Faith
Sally Simmel
So you, unlikely as you think you are, are the best expert when it comes to your own faith — how to live it and how to share it.

What Makes for Peace
Kate Sprutta Elliott
On a trip related to the ELCA's "Peace Not Walls" campaign, the editor meets people for whom this campaign is a gift of hope.

God's Grand Experiment
Karen Melong
Just what — or who — is the church? One-hundred percent of its population is made up of sinners, even though holy transformation is silently in process.

Blessings Leak
Editors
Sometimes Bible study has unexpected blessings.

Departments
Voices
Unlikely Evangelists
Terri Lackey

Give Us This Day
Ordinary Evangelism
Marj Leegard

Let Us Pray
The Gospel in Daily Life
Debra K. Farrington

Calendar Notes
July and August
Audrey Novak Riley

Health Wise
Standing Tall: Beating Back Pain
Molly M. Ginty

Bible Study
Act Boldly for Mission
Kelly Fryer
Session 2: Like the First Evangelists
Jesus has always chosen the most unlikely people to share the Good News. In this session we'll look at a few of them.

Session 3: In the Power of the Holy Spirit
The message we have to share is God's message. God sends the Holy Spirit to be at work in and through us, so that we can do it.

Help for Leaders

We Recommend
Resources for action, advocacy, programs, or further study.

Grace Notes
Nothing Impossible
Linda Post Bushkofsky

Amen!
To Tell the Story
Catherine Malotky

Plus...
Lutheran Woman Today and Bible Study Overview
Find out what's coming up in Lutheran Woman Today.

2007 Churchwide assembly Meets in August
Learn what's on the agenda for this year's ELCA Churchwide Assembly.
Ruth Hamilton

Blessed to Follow: The Beatitudes as a Compass to Discipleship
In this introduction to the 2007-2008 LWT Bible study, we learn three things: God calls us by blessing. We call God by blessing. Blessings leak — they manage to get all over everything. Martha E. Stortz

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