By Brooke Luby Thanks to author Shauna Niequist, Wrecked is offering three, free signed copies of her book Cold Tangerines. Just answer the question at the bottom of this post to enter, and we’ll randomly pick three winners in a week. Find out more at the end of this review: When I first picked up … Continue reading Book Review and Giveaway: Cold Tangerines by Shauna Niequist
By Brooke Luby Everyone wants change. We hear the cries for change resounding from the pulpit and the political platform. We desire to see our country hold fast to the moral values it is rooted in, and when we see these roots being pulled from the ground like weeds, we can’t help but develop a … Continue reading Could It Be That Love Is All We Need?
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 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 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 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