By Seth Barnes, Founder of Adventures in Missions Dori Beach used to work in a women’s rescue shelter. She tells the story of a pregnant 15 year-old named Janice. Janice is representative of so many who are caught in the whirlpool of generational habits. She’s a victim of incest who has raised many of her … Continue reading Being Missional in Urban America
By Jeff Goins, Editor So Beautiful was my introduction to Len Sweet. I had heard of him, read about him, and even bought a copy of The Gospel According to Starbucks as a gift for a friend, but this was my first time reading the words of Leonard Sweet. The basic idea of So Beautiful … Continue reading Book Review: So Beautiful by Len Sweet
By Harold Vance It seems we often miss the beauty of the stone we’re meant to build our lives upon. We build and build and build things with the sole purpose being only to build more. Yet progress is only progress insofar as it continues progressing. In the eyes of the world progress may … Continue reading Build: A Poem
By George Elerick There was this girl down the street from us who used to live in a cardboard box. A real verifiable cardboard box. She moved out when she was 16, she and her mom couldn’t get along after her dad left the family for another woman. Her world was wrecked. Her idea of … Continue reading Giving is the New Receiving
By Samira Gast A single band, or person, cannot just wake up one day and arrive at a level of super stardom that U2 has achieved. U2’s evident ability to create waves of global change has come and washed over our culture from the packed concert halls of downtown New York City to their work … Continue reading We Get To Carry Each Other: Gospel According to U2
By Jonathan Griffiths In preparation for teaching from Mark 13:1-2, I’ve been thinking about the process of redeeming art. By art I mean the broad spectrum of creativity that humanity exhibits, be it on canvas, from an instrument, or hewn from materials to make an object that speaks our voice to others. Clearly, we are … Continue reading Redeeming Art
By Larry Bubb Read Why?: Part 1 – God is the Ultimate Chess Master The 1st couple chapters of the book of Job are a graphic example of the horrible things that can happen to someone. It would seem bad enough for those things to happen to the average human, but they happened to a … Continue reading Why?: Part 2 – The Problem of Pain
By Max Polson Your reign is like a yoke around my neck, you lay it upon me. But I let you; willingly I stand there and let you bind me. I cannot break from it; its grasp is too strong for me to break. The weight I can no longer bear, you won’t help me, … Continue reading The Bindings of Sin: An Allegory
By George Elerick Have you ever been in one of those moods where you just didn’t want to cook? Or there was nothing really appetizing eyeballing you in the refrigerator. So you opted for the fast food option. To be honest, that was our family’s motto growing up, we all loved our fast food runs. … Continue reading Vampire Christians: Jesus Is More Than the Cross
By Larry Bubb Why is it that every single line I get in, whether at the store or in traffic, ends up taking longer than all the other lines even though mine looks shorter? Why don’t guys ever ask for directions? Not many people realize the Israelites wandered in the desert for 40 years because … Continue reading Why? Part 1: God Is The Ultimate Chess Master