By Mary DeMuth When we came home from France after being church planters there for two and a half years, I received an email from a friend asking me if we’d missed God by going there in the first place. After all, we came home early, so maybe our going had been a failure on … Continue reading God, Success, and Failed French Church Plants
By Andrew Greenhalgh It’s funny how quickly life takes a turn on you. One moment you’re playing a kid-concocted combo of Indiana Jones, Star Wars – with a liberal dose of Rambo – and The Karate Kid, tossed in to keep things interesting, and the next you’re married with kids, have an 8 to 5 … Continue reading O Adventure, Where Art Thou
By Dave Hopwood I recently bought a book by Danny Wallace, the original “Yes Man.” It’s called Random Acts of Kindness and is a lot funnier than it sounds. It is jammed-pack with stories and tips about how to make the world a better place, and put a smile on your own face while you’re … Continue reading Yes Man: Random Acts of Kindness
By Wrecked for the Ordinary If you’re savvy about justice, you’ve most likely heard the statistics about human trafficking and are probably aware that the sex trade runs especially rampant in Southeast Asia. But, apparently, this is not just an “overseas” issue anymore. Would you believe that trafficking of young people in North America not … Continue reading Human Trafficking: Not Just an Overseas Issue
By Dave Hopwood D’you think he was wearing shades? Maybe a false beard? Or a hoodie? Whichever way it seems to me the incident of the God in the night-time that was the Emmaus road walk indicates one thing, Jesus has a cheeky sense of humour. He spends forever with these guys, pretending the whole … Continue reading Jesus in Disguise: The Hidden God
By Tera Shelton During a year of volunteer work in the city, God began working in my heart to show me how I had been trying to contain Him in the boxes that I felt comfortable with. I knew God, I knew His Word, I knew what to do,say or pray to feel close to … Continue reading Poem: Free from Cardboard Box Religion
By Karen Swank I’m 44 years old and only just now discovering that I don’t know how to be a friend. It’s not that I don’t have friends; I would have to say I’m blessed in that department. I have new friends and old, friends close and far away, friends I talk to weekly and … Continue reading Friendship: A Dying Art?
By Josh Casper Friendship at the Margins is the kind of book I’ve been waiting for in the midst of my own spiritual crossroads (tumbleweed and all). There are models of missionary life that I’ve come to terms with – the word itself “missionary” being a hesitancy in my messy evangelical conscious. The missionaries I … Continue reading Friendship at the Margins Book Review
By Jeff Campbell There are some needs we have that we only discover as have them filled. My need for Christ was partially this way. I only discovered this need as he came and filled my need. Also, my need for pizza topped with jerk-spiced shrimp. Before I discovered this wonder on the way to … Continue reading Imaginary Jesus: Interview with Matt Mikalatos
By Jeff Goins, Editor Pete Wilson is the author of Plan B: What Do You Do When God Doesn’t Show Up the Way You Thought He Would? and pastor of Cross Point Church in Nashville, TN. This is an interview we recently did with him about his new book (and some other stuff): WRECKED: Pete, … Continue reading Interview with Pete Wilson: Plan B