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 MoreI 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.
On the very day that Jesus rose from the dead, he led a small group. The story is recorded in the 24th chapter of Luke.
At the outset of a new year, it’s natural to wonder about the future. No, not natural. COMPULSIVE.
Give or take a kilometer or two, our family traversed 8,157 miles for the chance to see, with our own eyes, a well drilled by the Water is Basic team. What we saw will change us forever.
I’ve seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens twice now. In fact, I had seen it twice before the end of 2015.