Tasha and I weren’t raised in the church. The tradition in which we found faith had a very guarded view of the Holy Spirit in general and supernatural stuff in particular. In fact, we heard more than one church leader semi-jokingly talk about the Trinity as the Father, Son, and Holy Bible.…
You know that feeling when your workday is complete? It’s time to relax, hang with friends, or just grab some “me” time. My day was over, and I wanted to go home and unwind. The Spirit had other plans for me… But as I drove home, I felt a burden to go visit Amy, a teenager in our ministry who was living in a crisis-pregnancy care center.…
Sometimes the devil really is to blame. Let’s say you’re on a mission trip and everything goes backward. It may not be a random accident that what you intended to be a win for the Kingdom of God has become a loss for everyone involved.…
Safety and security. Together, they’re quickly becoming an obsession in our culture. Especially considering recent events, questions currently abound regarding who we can trust and where we can feel safe, even when it comes to churches. Join Rick and special guest Craig Cable, an active member of an armed church security team and tactical trainer with years of security experience, as they continue our month-long focus on the Kingdom by zooming in on our growing concern about security and how it contrasts with a kingdom Jesus never described as “safe.”…
When it comes to our modern-day ideas about kings and kingdoms, experiences vary. For those of us born and raised as Americans, kings are something from our Revolutionary history lessons, or from popular fictional TV programs and tabloids featuring William, Harry, and Kate.…
How do we build and nurture a relationship with a person we can’t see, touch, hear, smell, or (!) taste? We’re told the goal of the Christian life is a close relationship with Jesus, but how do we do that without the benefit of our senses?…
Season 2, Episode 42: What the Book of Revelation Has to Do With You Revelation is one of the most misunderstood books of the Bible. Many people are attracted by its tantalizing reputation for offering signs that predict the future. But others are skeptical, and even alarmed, by the images it depicts.…
I love the 2002 movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding, where a Greek woman named Toula Portokalos falls in love with a non-Greek man. Gus, Toula’s proud father, struggles to give away his daughter to someone from another culture. The romantic comedy also emphasizes Gus’ love for the Greek language.…
Season 2, Episode 41: Daring to Live Supernaturally Welcome to part three of our series on the supernatural. We started off by defining the supernatural. Then last week we tackled the ugly underbelly of the supernatural, plus how you can spot red flags.…
Before Jesus began his public ministry on earth, he lived 30 years that the Bible doesn’t describe in great detail. We’d love if that weren’t the case—as youth workers, it would be handy to know how Jesus lived his teenage and young adult years.Did…
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