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A while ago, some friends and I who were raised going to church were discussing an important question: How can you share Jesus with secular people and not make it—for lack of a better word—weird? As a twenty-something living in a post-church world, I resonate with this question on a...

There's a lot going on inside your head. What shall I have for lunch? Is my anniversary coming up? Why'd she look at me like that? Oh, she was looking at the painting on the wall behind me. Your mind certainly is busy with the mundane stuff of life. But...

Kateregga Kyembe served seven years in Luzira Upper Prison for a crime he did not commit and was released on March 19, 2018. He was found innocent and suffered unnecessarily because of Uganda's poor legal system. A survey shows that 65% of the prisoners charged with capital offences are innocent...

As a freshman college student, Martin Luther King Jr., became “fascinated by the idea of refusing to cooperate with an evil system” and fighting against it while holding to his Christian value of love.1 Jesus and Gandhi became his mentors and he utilized their methods and weapons in his resistance...

What is Relational Integrity? Relational = “concerning the way in which two or more people or things are connected” Integrity = “the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness” This last year and a half I have been fully immersed in discipleship ministry. We grew together,...

Resistance comes in many varieties and forms. Nancy Wake was a New Zealand born Australian who married a wealthy Frenchman and settled in Marseille in 1939, a year before Germany invaded France. Upon their invasion, she and her husband joined the French Resistance Movement. The couple saved thousands of Jews...

I’ve heard quite a few people say it: “I have the best job in the world.” I always like it when I hear that, because it makes me feel really happy for the person that says it. And I’m one of those people. I say it. And I mean it....

We were entering a Tanzanian open market where a young Muslim woman was selling her produce. While waiting for customers, her attention was absorbed in a piece of literature from Light Bearers. The pastors and elders with me approached her to ask for a possible interview and video. Suddenly things...

Don’t mess with my sleep. That’s just a fair warning. In truth though, when you hear about the increased airplane accidents associated with exhausted pilots or medical errors from sleep-deprived physicians, a warning sign could be helpful. Unfortunately, there are a lot more people who are attempting to live on...

“What may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse” (Romans 1:19-20). Consider the curious case of Sigmund Freud. As the father...

In ancient times, the people of God considered it vital to their spiritual well-being to spend time in one another’s presence before the Lord. They saw themselves as many individuals that together composed one corporate individual, many bodies that made up one body. So they had annual events of corporate...

"It is for freedom that Christ has set us free" (Galatians 5:1).  I love that! He set you at liberty for the sake of freedom, no strings attached. It is God’s design that all of His creation thrive in the context of absolute freedom. God demonstrated His zeal for liberty...