By Brooke Luby Life is a complete mess. I don’t mean this in a hopeless, rip-your-hair-out way. It’s more sweet, like a toddler covered in chocolate pudding. As much as I think I am this free thinker, go-with-the-flow ,”let’s see where life takes me,” kind of person, I am still obsessed with control. I still … Continue reading Chocolate Pudding Spirituality: We Are All a Mess
By Shawna Spratt My adventure around India over the past month and a half has been one of the hardest things Iʼve done. God loves to put us in situations where we learn to surrender and learn to depend on Him instead of ourselves or our stuff. More ugly stuff inside of me was brought … Continue reading A Justice Adventure In India
By Lee Adams “Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.” Every great movement? That’s a pretty bold statement from D.L. Moody. Can the prayer of one individual truly bear such power? I mean, Jesus gave us authority over all things, the ability to move mountains and what-not, but most of … Continue reading The Power Of Prayer: From Prosperity to Movement
By Ben Girdler Getting sick sucks. Being sick in Mexico sucks more. Having a 106 degree fever while on a mission trip in Mexico, on your 17th birthday, being mildly allergic to the meds the nurse in Mexico gives you and having diarrhea all day for several days even after you get home sucks the … Continue reading Sick in Mexico: When Jesus Didn’t Wear a White Robe
By Andy Clapp I had always dreamed of a career where I traveled. I wanted to be the guy who jumped on a plane to go from this city to the next, joining the upper echelon of the corporate world and living that life of what I deemed “meaningful”. For years, I had been on … Continue reading Compromise for a Career
By Sam Townsend “How have I ignored this situation?” Five years ago, Lynne Hybels of Willow Creek Community Church near Chicago asked that question when she saw the AIDS crisis firsthand in Africa. On a warm October evening in Amman, Jordan, she asked that same question again, this time about the growing danger the Middle … Continue reading The Thirsty Rock of The Middle East
By Jeff Goins, Editor Tamara Park is author of Sacred Encounters: From Rome to Jerusalem. She works as the Pastor of Community for Warehouse 242 in Charlotte, NC, USA. Here’s an interview she did with Wrecked about her journey of discovery: Can you share a little bit about how you were led to go on … Continue reading Sacred Encounters: Interview with Tamara Park
By Brooke Luby I never understood Grace until I went to China. Actually I still don’t, but it fueled this immense desire to understand this concept, this beautiful reality that there is nothing I can do that will make God love me any more or any less. I am not sure how it all happened. … Continue reading The Grace of Gulou Street
By Ben Girdler Christmas morning, I was in a car crash that sent my fiance to the hospital for several hours and totaled my truck. A week and a half later, my fiance found out that she will lose her health benefits at the end of January. A week after that, I lost my job … Continue reading God Provides: The stress of life and generosity of people
By Josh Bottomly I am a white-skinned father with a black-skinned son. A little over a year ago, my wife, Amy, and I adopted our son, Silas, from Ethiopia. Silas turned two in December. Today our conversations tend to revolve around our favorite snacks – yogurt and lemon pound cake at Starbucks – and favorite … Continue reading A Word of Hope: Reflections on Martin Luther King, Jr.