IBC Blog
Posts by Ryan Sanders
eLetter
The Best Seat in the House
I love getting good seats — courstide, ringside, box seats, on the glass. When you have good seats the action seems faster, the music sounds better, the actors’ faces are more expressive. And you can stretch your legs.
Home Groups
Jesus’ Improbable Power Over Death
There is something unifying about death — it is the one enemy we all share. It’s final and irreversible. It’s universal: everybody dies.
Chatter
Continuing Education
I’m not a spiritual giant; I’m only saying what anyone would say. If anyone had been through what I have been through and had been changed like I have, they would absolutely say, ‘I would do it again.’
Faith & Belief
The Gospel & Life Hacks
I like life hacks — those lists of clever ways to get around life’s little annoyances. You see them in your news feed or in the nifty two-minute packages at the end of your favorite newscast.
Faith & Belief
Party God
So I’m reading straight through the Bible this year, which is all fun and games as long as you’ve got miracles and floods and plagues and such. But then you get to Leviticus and the bottom falls out. Leviticus is where Bible reading plans go to die.
Home Groups
Zaccheus and Me
I have a habit of sorting Biblical redemption stories into two categories. The first kind of story is about someone who is down-and-out, someone who needs rescue because life has dealt them a lousy hand.