Your phone may be the loudest voice in your life — and it’s drowning out God. Silence used to be part of our lives. You’d take a walk with only your thoughts. Wait in line without checking your feed. Sit at a red light without checking email. But somewhere along the way, the stillness got replaced by scrolls, likes, buzzes, and pings. I may be showing my age, but I remember when our family got...
Today, we live in a world where influence is measured by what people say, what they wear, where they vacation and dine, and what they drive. There ws a time when the influencers were people who actually accomplished good. People like Martin Luther King, Jr. who was key in birthing the non-violent civil right movement, Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid revolutionary, who served as the first black...
Opening Thought Excuse my heresy for knocking bacon. Unfortunately, there are churches who have adopted what they consider a working formula to attract men—promise men anything including bacon, toss in a Bible verse, maybe a few dad jokes, and call it men’s ministry; using the tried and true idiom, “If you feed them, they will come.” Hey, we’re not knocking breakfast. Men love bacon...