How you think changes everything
Atheist churches—I know, total oxymoron—are popping up everywhere these days, drawing people from all walks of life who simply want to celebrate being alive. They sing songs, hear an inspirational messages, and focus on the positive aspects of life. After all, the headline news these days can be anything but positive, so listening to some […]
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In a conversation with my brother recently, he mentioned something about someone who was struggling with a disease, but it was “better than the alternative,” or death. Believing that heaven is real, and our souls go there when our bodies give out, I disagreed. I don’t fear death as the end, but as a new […]
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I recently read a blog by a woman who felt guilty because she was not the same person her husband had married a few years ago. She was feeling badly that she no longer wrote him love letters or dressed as provocatively. She was determined to change back into that “newlywed” she used to be […]
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When a CEO of a high-tech company uses a term like “demon” to describe artificial intelligence that grabs my attention. It should grab yours, too. Recently, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla (a manufacturer of electronic sports cars) warned against “unleashing an artificial intelligence demon.” He cautioned an audience at MIT about this kind of technology […]
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Millennials feel a huge disconnect from today’s traditional churches. The factors of access, alienation and authority are key reasons for a great exodus of youth from church. Let’s look at the changing face of future believers: Today, there is unlimited access to other world-views because of the internet. Technology is fueling the rapid pace of […]
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Story 2014 (@storychicago) left me, a Christian creative, feeling perhaps this Story has lost its soul. The place that Story was to me no longer seems to exist. In 2011, I attended Story and was inspired by other successful Christian artists, along with a few secular artists. This time, I doubt any speaker was Christian […]
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I’ve been one of those Christians who have hesitated to jump on the “End Times Bandwagon” until recently. I got convicted by God to be like the people of Issachar who, “understood the times and knew what the people of God should do” (1 Chronicles 12:32). This recent report is what tipped the scales of […]
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A Facebook site began in his honor to communicate to everybody how he was doing, and hundreds upon hundreds of people began to pray. A benefit concert took place to help the family financially with the medical costs. No one really realized just how terrible his health was because he never stopped joking around, smiling […]
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It’s a quiet Saturday afternoon. The clouds hide the sunshine, the neighborhood sounds are void of laughing children or lawn mowers. It is still, yet in the distance, a siren haunts the air, heavy with emergency, ominous and foreboding. I find myself alone. My husband and son are off on a Boy Scouts campout, and […]
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Just because someone says they’re a Christian, doesn’t mean that they even understand what it’s like to be follower of Jesus Christ. Some just say it’s because that is how they were raised, or it’s because they think it’s American to be a Christian. They are “Christian in name only (CHINOs).” If you were to ask them […]
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