The Parade Nobody Gets to Watch

In his book A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, Donald Miller describes a New Year's Day parade held in San Diego. But this was no ordinary parade. ...

Worship: Make Love, Make War

Worship songwriter Brian Doerksen writes of a time when God placed in his mind a surprising, provocative picture that has since defined for him biblical ...

Max Lucado on the Importance of Christian Community

Questions can make hermits out of us, driving us into hiding. Yet the cave has no answers. Christ distributes courage through community; he dissipates ...

G.K. Chesterton: "Love Is Not Blind; It Is Bound"

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

—G.K. Chesterton, English writer ...

Power Outage Teaches Church a Valuable Lesson

In an article for Leadershipjournal.net, pastor Clark Cothern shares how a power outage at his church revealed the power of God:

Our church meets in a ...

Woman Suddenly Elevated to Royal Status

The article in The Washington Post, began with these words: "The king folds her own laundry, chauffeurs herself around Washington in a 1992 Honda, ...

Man Discovers Co-worker Is His Brother

They worked together every day at the furniture delivery company and didn't know. Gary would lift one end of the couch and Randy the other. People ...

Fijian Government Silences Singing at Conference

In Fiji, singing hymns can get you in trouble. About one million Methodists live in the south Pacific island country, and each summer 20,000 to 50,000 ...

Shane Hipps on the Paradox of the Electronic Age

Shane Hipps writes in “Flickering Pixels”:

I have two friends who are best friends. Each was the best man in the other's wedding. They ...

The Importance of Identifying Relational Issues

The Thing in the Bushes is a book about corporate blind spots. Authors Kevin Graham Ford and James D. Osterhaus point out that most leaders of companies ...