By Carole Turner My 12 year-old daughter has gotten up every Thursday at 4:30am for almost two years to go cook and then feed breakfast to the homeless population of Baton Rouge. The breakfast is served at the Baton Rouge Dream Center’s Roselawn location, which is just off Florida Blvd, right down the road from … Continue reading Helping Homeless People: Not Always About Money
By Jonathan Griffiths I’m pretty much a city boy. Raised in and around Birmingham, England, I moved to Idaho in 2004 because I met a girl who looked past my faults, agreed to marry me and this is where she’s from. Splitting my week between an IT job in a medical group and assistant pastor … Continue reading God in the Garden: A Lesson in Pastoring
By Jesse Medina This Book Will Change Your World: How All Things Become New By Kevin Beck A book promises a lot by promising to change your world. Needless to say, this book will do it that is, if you believe what Beck says and let it affect your daily life. The premise of the … Continue reading Book Review: Kevin Beck’s This Book Will Change Your World
By Jeff Goins, Editor There is a popular hymn that goes like this: Jesus, Jesus, how I trust him How I’ve proved him o’er and o’er Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus O for grace to trust him more… I sometimes catch myself humming or singing that hymn without even realizing it, and I’m not even that into … Continue reading ‘Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus?
By Jonathan Foster If you were Graphite would you ever get upset? People are always taking you for granted, using you then erasing you, using you again. When you finally produce something worthwhile, then what happens? Ink comes along and traces over you to make it “stand out” more. Or worse yet, you’re thrown away … Continue reading Ink vs Graphite
By Jody Matheson Is it with joy or sadness to review an album like My Soul Sings, the latest CD/DVD of the world renowned worship group, Delirious? There is joy in listening and watching a tremendous worship band perform, but sadness knowing that I’ve come to the Delirious? table a little too late. I caught … Continue reading My Soul Sings Deliriously: Interview with Martin Smith from Delirious?
By Mariah Secrest When we talk about grace on Sunday morning, we often couch it in sacrosanct sentiment. We gloss over our (or others’) bevy of shortcomings with a wand of detachment, daring only to acquaint ourselves with some vague and perhaps grandiose notion of grace. When we depart into Sunday afternoon traffic, however, the … Continue reading Book Review: Grace is for Sinners by Serena Woods
By Lauren Deville I used to notice and be confused by the fact that so many people’s lives tended to repeat themselves, when, for all intents and purposes, they had nothing to do with it. Each person’s script was different, but they somehow seemed to live that same script over and over again, growing increasingly … Continue reading DVD Review: Battlefield of the Mind by Joyce Meyers
By Sammi Deem It is not an everyday occurrence that people take God to marriage counseling. In her book Angry Conversations with God, Susan Isaacs tells the story of how she did just that. Frustrated with her individual relationships with God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, Isaacs seeks out a pastor-turned-therapist who ultimately helps her … Continue reading Book Review: Angry Conversations With God by Susan Isaacs
By Sarah Fujimoto Redemption begins with honesty. Lately I’ve been confronted by me not going there. It seems my interests and desires the past few years continue to evolve. Yet, at times I feel like I am stuck in a certain room of a big house, knowing that if I confront the other areas I … Continue reading The Gathering in Philadelphia: Experiencing Freedom Through Art