No, it’s not an item on a menu at Macaroni Grill. It’s "Chazown," a Hebrew word for "vision." Craig Groeschel, pastor of LifeChurch.tv in Oklahoma, wants to help people get off the sidelines and get involved in the action of ministry, and has written this book to help them do so. Without a doubt, Americans …
Category Archive: Life
Worship is Life. Worship is everything you think, everything you say, and everything you do, revealing that which you value and treasure most in life.
Aug 09 2006
Don’t Waste Your Life | John Piper
One of the best "easy to read" books written in the past few years is Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper. Normally "easy to read" and "John Piper" are not words one expects to see in the same sentence, as Piper’s knowledge of God’s Word is as extensive as his passion for it, and …
Jul 31 2006
Voddie Baucham | Marriage By Design
Marriage By Design, a series of messages by Voddie Baucham delivered at North Point Community Church, is available free for streaming from North Point Ministries in Atlanta. Here’s what’s up so far, according to the website: Marriage in the Beginning Our culture often views getting married and starting a family as a last resort. In …
Jul 11 2006
John Piper | Don’t Waste Your Life
As we meet tonight on this 29th of December, 2003 the body count of those killed in the earthquake in Bam, Iran stands at about 25,000. That’s a lot of human beings snuffed out in one morning. You feel the personal magnitude of it when you read of a father digging for his family and …
Jul 11 2006
A Growing Hunger for Honesty and Authenticity
We’ve linked to this before but thought we’d resurrect it again. Chuck DeGroat, a counselor, writer and an adjunct Professor at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, takes a look at the trends in the church today. His observations, and those he quotes, are helpful to those trying to reach today’s generation. An excerpt: Traditional evangelicals …
Jul 10 2006
What’s in a Song?
Chuck Colson’s Breakpoint is rerunning a fine article by Campus Pastor Kevin Twit entitled "What’s in a Song?" In recent years, PBS aired a documentary titled The Merchants of Cool. The program revealed how the various media conglomerates shape our understanding of what “cool” is, and then steer the buying taste of our youth in …
Jul 10 2006
Guest Author Richard Pratt | Relevance Without Irreverence : How To Become All Things To All Men
A couple of years ago I was riding in the car with my sixteen-year-old daughter. She turned on the radio, and one of her favorite songs began to play. "Listen to this, Dad," she said with enthusiasm. "What do you think?" I reacted without thinking. "I don’t know, honey. I can’t understand the…" I stopped …
Jun 05 2006
Guest Authors Alex and Brett Harris | Kidults: Addicted to Adultesence
Kidults: Addicted to Adultescenceby Alex and Brett Harris Meet Matt Swann. Matt is a 27-year-old American male who took six and a half years to graduate from college with a degree in cognitive science, and is just getting started figuring out what he wants to do with his life. Matt was asked if he was …
May 22 2006
Guest Author Randy Alcorn | How To Want What Is Best
(This article originated from an email sent by Randy to a group of men he was meeting with who were studying through Dallas Willard’s book, The Spirit of the Disciplines.) For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me [not "wants to lose his life"] will save …
May 13 2006
Feeding Sheep or Amusing Goats?
Editor’s Note: This article has often been posted around the internet as having originated from Charles Spurgeon. According to Phil Johnson, webmaster of the Spurgeon Archive, the actual author is unknown but may have been Archibald Brown, a friend of Spurgeon’s who briefly filled Spurgeon’s pulpit at Metropolitan Baptist Church after Spurgeon’s death. An evil …
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