By Summer Lee Carlson As a consequence of spending childhood in church, my memories are filled with felt boards, puppet shows and substitute “Halloween” parties in which one dressed as a Bible character or animal...
Read More →By Matt Rose “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only those who do the will of My Father who is in heaven. Many will say to...
Read More →By Jonathan Foster The Point of a Restaurant The point of a restaurant is to serve food… good, authentic food. Why do you open a restaurant if not to make an impression on someone’s palette? ...
Read More →By Carole Turner My husband Dean and I have been a part of Healing Place Church for over 10 years. I have known Dino and Delynn Rizzo for over 20 years. A lot of what...
Read More →By Jon Hirst Divide and conquer… analyze and define… specialize and focus. All around us, we hear the call to niche our lives, control our surroundings and manage our worlds. In school, guidance counselors always...
Read More →By Sarah Fujimoto and Lee Melton Picture this. Your meandering your way through a cold, could hear a pin drop on the floor art museum when something catches your eye. Left to ponder, stare, and...
Read More →By Wrecked for the Ordinary Obama has announced that he will not support investigating the alleged torturous interrogations conducted in Guantanamo Bay during the previous Bush Administration. The following news excerpt is from the IrishTimes.com:...
Read More →By Karen Swank Teaching Sunday School and leading youth group is wrecking my perspective on Somali pirates. Because I teach on the persecuted church, I know that people are executed, tortured, or imprisoned for their...
Read More →By Susan Perry I was first wrecked by poverty during my sophomore year of college. Our flight touched down on the island of Exuma in the Bahamas; I stepped off excited, expectant, and feeling completely...
Read More →By Caitlin Woodward Skeptical? Yes. I am of most things that cry out from the American Christian sub-culture, “Buy me! I can fix you!” I don’t like the mess of fix-it steps that the well...
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