In recent weeks at IBC, we’ve been discussing the importance of wrestling with our own personal past—our life story—to better understand our present and God’s intentions for our future. This is a vitally important part of our ongoing spiritual growth and development. God has made us who we are through the formative experiences and relationships of our lives: though our heritage, our heroes, our high points, and our hard times.
Read MoreThe other day, my husband came home with a three-ring binder from a business coaching group to which he belongs. He plopped it down beside me on the couch: “Personal Life Planner” it said on the cover. It beckoned to me.
This is the story of many people working together to bring transformation and hope to the world of human trafficking. While we can all enact change in our corner of the world, and one person can change the whole world, for a problem on the scale of human trafficking, it’s going to take all of us working together to bring about worldwide transformation.
In the 23rd Psalm, the writer says to God, “You prepare a table for me in the presence of my enemies.” God — host-God, table-setting God, banquet-setting God — he spreads a feast for us in the presence of enemies.
It’s 4 a.m. and, after 200 pages and five hours, Nick closed the book. He’d started it with the intention of winning back his ex-girlfriend, but now he was questioning the very fundamentals of his life.
A note from Pastor Andy in light of the recent tragedy in Dallas.
Hello and welcome to the story of Nandi and of IBC’s Hospitality Ministry. We are so glad you are here.