Think back to the stories that have shaped or impacted you… what about those stories stood out to you? What principles could you draw from them? It is probably true that the stories that stood out had a message that resonated. It doesn’t matter what age you were when you heard or read the story,…
Rory Noland wrote The Heart of the Artist when he was the Worship Director at Willow Creek Church and in it includes many life experiences he’s learned from through church ministry. Through it he addresses the problem between the church and the ‘artsy type’ and why that problem exists. He provides a solution for how to not…
The main premise of Flickering Pixels is that technology has a profound impact on how we think, feel, react and, well, everything. The take away isn’t so much that technology is bad, but that we need to be aware of how it shapes us. In some ways Flickering Pixels reads like a love letter to…
Christian musicians are able to create God-glorifying music that gives spiritual and Christian experiences to the Western church without being purely descriptive or having overtly Christian lyrics. MUSIC MAKES PEOPLE FEEL Everyone has that one song. Picture the average member of the Western world. As soon as “that song” is turned on, he is suddenly…
I came across this little cartoon while checking Facebook today. It caught my eye, I like to see positive messages being shared on the Web, since so often its a pile of crap. So, anyway, I clicked on the link which brought me to the larger version of the image, which showed also the bottom…
Beth Moore’s marketing advantages plus her contemporizing of the gospel has made her a pop star of evangelical devotional literature among adult Christian women. Over 658,000 women have attended Moore’s Living Proof Live conferences. But in her Evangelical eagerness to gain a current cultural hearing, Moore’s books sacrifice doctrine to appeal to the pop appetites…