The New Free ThinkersIt’s twelve forty-five in the morning. I lay in a sleeping bag on my living room floor, awake. Though I have every reason to be comatose, I can’t close my eyes. It’s prayer time. I roll over onto my stomach, and start to seek the Lord, trying not to wake my friend on the couch, [...]
On a recent Saturday night, I was in a prayer meeting with young men from my local youth group. After praying for a while, we took a few moments to discuss what we were all feeling. We unanimously agreed that we were felt God wanted us to commit ourselves, our dreams, and our desires to [...]
This guest article comes to us from Dennis Bousquet, Jr., as part of our “Month of Guest Articles” for September 2009. “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” — John 14:27 [...]
Imagine yourself sitting down in a fancy restaurant. You look over the menu and a “chocolate fudge cake” catches your eye. You wait and wait, and the waitress finally walks over after her forty-five minute break from you. She acts as though no one has noticed her absence and calmly says “ok, what do you [...]
Picking the road to use for my commute is usually the first thing I think about after buckling the seat belt. There’s the straight road through a small but busy town, the winding back road that has almost no traffic, and a multitude of side roads to vary the routine. The catch is that I’ve [...]
A big part of the Christian life is learning to really trust that God is good. You know in your head that God is a good God; you hear sermons about it, read scriptures about it, and sing songs about it. But even with all those reminders, I still struggle to believe it sometimes. When [...]
“It ain’t over till it’s over.” That famous phrase can be used in almost any form of competition, from the World Series to a Scrabble tournament, from a heavyweight fight to the final scene of a drama. The thrill of the odds-defying comeback story has probably enchanted everyone at some time. But I want to [...]
Imagine with me again that your life is like a canvas. God is the artist that paints the picture of your life. The analogy is apt, for just as our life is a process, paintings require a process to produce. Let’s focus on oil paintings. When oil painting the artist will use multiple layers to [...]
Do you wonder what God is doing? Life is pretty difficult for everyone, and even Christians don’t know all the answers. When God leads us through shadowy valleys, they still have shadows. But even though we don’t see the big picture, the cool thing is that He does! The “big picture” is all made by [...]
Thud. A tremor ran through the ground. People started to move out of the street. Thud. Thud. Thud. Now a miniature earthquake seemed to be taking place. Everyone hurried aside. What was happening in the land of Canaan? Nothing major: just some of the children of Anak out for an evening stroll. While not a [...]