Today’s Must Read Monday includes a listening up, looking up and reading up. Listen up: More than 15 years ago Todd and Jennifer Dekryger left America to follow God’s sending call to build a Hospital of Hope among the Muslim majority population of Mango, Togo, in West Africa. The story is one of triumph […]
This Must Read Monday needs a brief setup: It is my assessment that much of the drama being played out in the political, educational, social and personal arenas is due to the nationwide identity crisis in which we find ourselves. We don’t know who we are as a nation or who we are as families […]
Try to imagine the world without Christianity. Unimaginable, right? That’s the premise, the point and the title of Jeremiah Johnston’s latest book. His provocative question led me to wonder further: what would the world be like without the Gospel? What would I be like? What would my marriage be like? My family? My community? What […]
The thread on her Twitter feed read: 1/ I’m going to get vulnerable here for a sec. 2/ Watching my mom suffer alone for the past ten years with horrible illnesses is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do. She’s suffered so much, and I spend hours of every day wishing I could make […]
Remembering the Dreams of Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Martin Luther King dreamed right and righteous dreams. In the secular discourse it is sometimes lost that King operated out of a deep reservoir of faith, was motivated by Christian conviction, placed his hope in the Lord, and pursued a dream that aligned with his knowledge […]
A 24-year-old woman who built an online following of more than 300,000 fans with posts about makeup and home decorating took Oprah’s Sunday night Golden Globes challenge to “speak your truth” to heart. Tana Smith has transformed her YouTube channel, Tanamontana100, into a truth speaking platform. The shopping/make-up tip vlogger says, “The reason to speak your […]
Welcome to a new year of Must Read Monday! One reader asked, “How do you choose what to include in these lists? Why these stories and not others?” I choose from among those stories that cross my personal radar but then I’m also actively looking for stories that are either explicitly about life, religious […]
Carmen joined Sean Tabatt on his show to discuss what it looks like for Christians to represent Christ in a culture of self-promotion. Listen to the interview here. “It is the Christian’s responsibility to be actively engaged with the culture in such a way that we are actually bearing witness to what Kingdom realities […]
Have you perused the children’s book section lately? There are a few gems but you have to dig to find them. It may surprise you to learn that not all children’s books are seeking to teach children the values espoused by a Christian worldview. In fact, many children’s books are designed to do just the […]
Think of this as an exercise in taking a year-end inventory of your life and cultivating the spiritual soil for an abundant harvest in the year ahead. Taking stock of your spiritual life Get out your 2017 calendar, your journal, your Bible and your check register. Slowly, soberly look through them and take stock. Bible […]