Easter time is a hard time to get excited about. Besides the fact that it is loosely connected to spring break, you just don’t see much hoopla about it. As we head into the dry days of spring, there aren’t any decent holidays until summer, unless you’re on the edge of your seat for President’s […]
HOW TO SAVE A LIFE
You don’t have to wear a lifeguard’s outfit or jump into a burning building to save someone’s life. In fact you don’t even have to leave the comfort of your armchair or part with much hard-earned cash. Here are our top ten: 1. Sponsor a LifeStraw® You’re meant to drink 8 glasses of water a […]
FINDING JOY APART
In today’s world we have so many options available to help us feel connected. Between our MySpace pages, our Facebook status updates and our tweeting on Twitter, it seems that we can keep track of every moment of our days and our friends’ days as well. Yet with all of this technology designed to keep […]
GOD’S RESCUING GRACE
My life seemed destined to fail before it had really begun. I was twenty-five years old, an alcoholic, burned out, tired of living and seriously considering ending it once and for all by committing suicide. I had tried everything possible to escape feelings of emptiness and hopelessness but nothing worked. I soon concluded that nothing would […]
ARE CHRISTIANS ANTI-HOMOSEXUAL?
The book UnChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity And Why It Matters by David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons (2007), details nonbelievers’ view of Christians. In the book, Kinnaman and Lyons, with research from the Barna group, highlight the ways Christians are viewed in a negative light, especially among Americans aged 16 to […]
GOD ALWAYS HAS A PURPOSE
This is a story of a woman’s salvation. Even having strayed from God, and in the midst of her darkness and despair, she was never alone. God was her ever-present protector, guiding her back into his gracious arms. Net, a strong, independent woman on the outside, was physically and emotionally battered on the inside. She […]
BREAKING BREAD AND BREAKING BARRIERS IN SOUTH AFRICA
My arrival in Durban, South Africa was a very particular brand of disorientation. Nothing seemed familiar. Rand. Paranoia. Koombis. Xhosa. The remnants of apartheid. Humidity. Food-stealing monkeys. All of it felt foreign. I decided to study abroad for one year in college to get some field research experience in another country. But underneath the academic […]
GOD VALUES OUR HEALTH
I grew up going to church, listening to sermons and scriptures being spoken, but I really struggled when I tried to read the Bible myself. I actually felt condemned and a burden of expectation whenever I tried to read a passage. Five years ago, after a very difficult loss—the birth and death of our daughter […]
ARE CHRISTIANS TOO FOCUSED ON GETTING CONVERTS?
In the last issue we covered the first perception mentioned in the book UnChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity: And Why It Matters by David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons (2007), that details nonbelievers’ view of Christians. In the book, Kinnaman and Lyons, with research from the Barna group, highlight the ways Christians […]
YASUSHI MIKAMI
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, […]