Fuel For Your Faith
On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright made history when he became the first man to take flight. For twelve gravity defying seconds he flew 120 feet along the banks of North Carolina. In the biography, The Wright Brothers, David McCullough explains how aviation experts point to that day as the beginning of air travel. But […]
When Life Is Hard & You Feel Weak
American evangelist D.L. Moody said, “When a man has no strength if he leans on God, he becomes powerful.” That’s a beautiful quote that makes us feel good, but in reality, most of us haven’t yet learned to live that way. One night a couple of weeks ago I was home alone and doing some […]
Communicating With Kindness In a Culture of Hostility
I’ve got a friend who hasn’t spoken to his family since November. On Thanksgiving Day, he and his sister got into a fight over politics. The argument escalated and ended badly. Christmas came and went, as did his mother’s eighty-third birthday, and the family is still not speaking to one another. We live in a […]
All Christians Are Called To Serve The Oppressed
Recently, many of us were outraged when the story broke of a disabled eighteen-year-old boy in Chicago being beaten and tortured by three teenagers and a twenty-four-year-old man. The beating was streamed live on Facebook and quickly went viral. Thankfully, the traumatized victim was returned to his family after being found walking the streets by […]