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 MoreIn this Easter season, there’s a particular word you’re going to hear over and again. The word is emblazoned on all the creative work we’re producing these days.
Are you looking for a safe place to ask tough questions? You’ve heard the line, “There’s no such thing as a bad question.” Some people don’t always mean it when they say it. But we do!
There is something unifying about death — it is the one enemy we all share. It’s final and irreversible. It’s universal: everybody dies.
Easter Sunday is like that happy dance you bust into when you find the egg filled with chocolate, jelly beans, AND that $5 bill—except, well, it’s a much bigger reason for celebration.
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.’
I had become a pretty good liar. More on that in a minute. See, I had just come back to Christianity from a three-year hiatus after my dad died when I was 13.