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Make Us Mountaineers
Apparently, somewhere over the mountains and the sea, God has a river flowing with love. And, when they are truly in a state ...
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Consumption of an Offering
With the lights out, it’s less dangerous, here we are now, entertain us I feel stupid and contagious here we are now, entertain ...
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Creation Photography: A call to glorify God through the study and creative interaction with nature
My footsteps fall with a crunch, as I tramp through the nearly silent, predawn forest. The only sounds that ...
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To Indie or Not To Indie: A Caution and Challenge to Christians Who Write and Christians Who Read
A Change in Choosing and a Change of Heart Although my navigation skills are slightly below average, there are several places I can drive ...
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Hip Hop and the South Side
It is a sunny hot Monday in July 2011 on the south side of Chicago. Here at 63rd and Stony Island, one of ...
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the musical ghetto
In America, repenting of sins and confessing the name of Jesus Christ does not always come with an expectation of the transformation of ...
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Roll Out Your Cannon and Blow it to Pieces
Have you ever heard something that has changed your thinking? Not just a convincing argument, but something that really hit you to the ...
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Ink Compost
Introspection: “the examination or observation of one’s own mental and emotional processes” (New Oxford American Dictionary). This word is not a part of the ...
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Art & Identity
"The great spiritual call of the Beloved Children of God is to pull their brokenness away from the shadow of the curse and put it under the light of the blessing"
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Throwback: Art History Informing Today’s Church Media
It has been years since Jesus ascended into heaven, the letters of the Apostles are circulating through the cities and the countryside, and ...
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The Ambiguous ‘Christian’
Coming to a Critique Stumbling over and over again, it was not long ago that the perplexing situation of miscommunication seemed to be arising ...
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Social Media and the Church: How Self-Promotion Endangers Christian Activity
I am a twenty-two year old senior in college. I have a Facebook that I check about five times a day, either at ...
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The Value of Good Design
From the awe inspiring Gothic cathedrals of the 13th century, to Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel, to the seven-ton crucifix built by sculptor Marshall Fredericks, ...
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Visual Media and Small Church Culture
A few years ago, my home church installed a brand new projector system. The rural, Southern church community had been using an overhead ...
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Sinful Literature
“He is jealous of the past and the present and the future…only when he is there with me, in me, does he ...
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Loneliness and Literature: A Case for Poetry in Ministry
Disclaimer: Due to the honest representation of loneliness, brokenness, pain, and suffering through the medium of poetry, videos linked in this article ...
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Imitation and Authenticity: Evangelicalism’s Binge on Worship Music
It has been said that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, yet what happens when such imitation becomes annoying, or worse ...
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