Encountering the Extraordinary

A collection of stories of the extraordinary presence of God in our ordinary lives

Rebecca Madden Rebecca Madden

A Clock

An excerpt from Chapter 4 of Breathless Haste: Finding God in Ordinary Life.

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Jay Madden Jay Madden

McDonald’s

We were driving from our home in South Carolina to Birmingham, Alabama with our six-month old son

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Rebecca Madden Rebecca Madden

Go to Chicago!

In 2002, my husband, Jay, sold his business and began to work at our church as an interim pastor.

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Rebecca Madden Rebecca Madden

Breathless Haste

Jay and I were sensing that our season at Willow Creek was drawing to a close

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Rebecca Madden Rebecca Madden

The Container

Earlier this year, a container was loaded in Atlanta with 400 boxes of books from Books for Africa

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Rebecca Madden Rebecca Madden

Another Audible

"The whole Christian life is an audible." That sentence literally brought me to tears.

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Rebecca Madden Rebecca Madden

All In

My husband and I had lived in South Carolina for 40 years, and then almost out of the blue

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Rebecca Madden Rebecca Madden

Soccer Balls

This picture of a precious little boy holding two "balls"

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Rebecca Madden Rebecca Madden

My Rock

My "rock" story begins with the birth of our first son, Brock.

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