Book Review: Becoming The Answer To Our Prayers
Youth Department (By Stephen Rivero) “Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants…
2009
A New Way To Pray
(By Captain Thom Moffitt) – I opened my mail the other day to find a poster and information on the upcoming Commissioning weekend. It’s being described as a “Prayer Summit:…
Justin Rose Update
Justin Rose, from the Mayfair Community Church in Chicago, will be going to Kenya, Africa in the next few weeks with the Salvation Army’s Central Territory’s Mission’s Bureau. We want…
Recapture
(By Lindsey Bailey) – I recently came across a verse while preparing to teach my youth group’s small group time. It’s a verse found in Ezekiel chapter 14. In order…
Book Review: Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
(By James Davisson) – “For Preservation is a Creation, and more, it is a continued Creation, and a Creation every moment.” To be sure, a number of you have heard…
Purity
Jonathan Taube (By Jonathan Taube) – Okay, think about James Bond. Now quickly, what are the first few things that come to mind? The Golden Gun? “Vodka Martini; shaken, not stirred?” Sweet…
The Earth
(By Ian Smith) – Have you ever had one moment that was completely silent and completely wonderful as you were sitting outside? The more and more I think about it,…
But What Can I Do About It?
(By Anwar Smith) – Are those your sentiments when you hear someone mention the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa? Have we become so calloused to the ills of this world…
Solidarity, Not Superiority
(By Andres Villatoro) – Care about them as much as you care about yourselves and think the same way that Christ Jesus thought: Christ was truly God. But he did…
Impermanence
(By Erica Johnson) – Have you ever stopped to think about the impermanence of things? The food in my house disappears pretty fast, and when there are cookies around they…