The Spiritual Consequences of Intellectual Impatience by Stephen Rankin We live in a society that assumes that faster is (always) better. In the 1950s, computers used vacuum tubes or transistors to process a thousand to several thousand bits of data per second. Today, the micro-processing speed of computers is
Spiritual Leverage by Mike Powers Katherine Lee Bates was inspired to write the poem America the Beautiful after a visit to Pikes Peak in 1893 in a covered wagon with fellow teachers from Colorado College. Little did she know that those words would become one of the most patriotic songs
The Spiritual Consequences of Intellectual Impatience by Stephen Rankin We live in a society that assumes that faster is (always) better. In the 1950s, computers used vacuum tubes or transistors to process a thousand to several thousand bits of data per second. Today, the micro-processing speed of computers is
The Image We Carry by Jonathan A. Powers During his career as a pastor, Rev. David Seamands would often begin pastoral counseling sessions by handing a person a blank piece of paper and asking them to draw a picture of God. He claimed that he could learn more about a
A Mind Strangely Warmed By Stephen Rankin I love John Wesley’s journal entry of May 24, 1738 on his famous Aldersgate experience, which many of us recently commemorated. It just so happens, for us in the West, the event coincided with Pentecost this year. The convergence of these two events
Why the Old Testament? by Bill T. Arnold Every reader of the Bible is confronted with a question: “Since the Old Testament claims God revealed himself to ancient Israel and that he will reveal himself further in the future, what do I make of these theological claims?” Or to put
What’s Right with the Church By Mike Powers One of the best-known testimonies in Scripture is also a timely illustration of what is right about the Church as criticism of everything that is wrong with the Church continues. Consider Saul the antagonist of Christianity who became Paul the protagonist of
A Mind Strangely Warmed By Stephen Rankin I love John Wesley’s journal entry of May 24, 1738 on his famous Aldersgate experience, which many of us recently commemorated. It just so happens, for us in the West, the event coincided with Pentecost this year. The convergence of these two events