“I can’t!” four-year-old Jensen said to his mother when he was told to clean up his toy room. Was Jensen’s statement true? Was he making an excuse? Or did he simply not know that he was capable of doing the task? Sometimes children say they can’t do a task when
Academies of Life by Stephen Rankin The philosopher and spiritual writer, Dallas Willard, of blessed memory, wrote the following exhortation in the introduction to his book, The Spirit of the Disciplines: “Our local assemblies must become academies of life as it was meant to be.” That phrase, “academies of life,”
Brentwood Baptist is sending two more of our own into the world. Drew Benward is headed to The Point Church in Vancouver, Canada, and Elizabeth Harris is headed to Cape Town, South Africa, to serve with Living Hope. Both have spent years walking toward this moment: Drew since a high
Kew Gardens What the Unchurched Really Think About Your Church Thom and Jess discuss what research reveals about the unchurched and why many churches misunderstand the people living around them. What Everyone Gets Wrong About the Unchurched – Webinar The unchurched population in the United States is undergoing significant changes.
Is Scripture one Book or a collection of many books? If the Bible is one Book, then it has to have one subject, one unifying center. According to the New Testament, that one subject is Christ, who is foreseen, spoken of, and even active, in the many books of the
Love that cannot be seendoes not obscure—Jan Twardowski, Świat Fr. Jan Twardowski (1915-2006) may not be known in the English-speaking world as well as other Polish poets such as Czesław Miłosz, Wisława Szymborska, or Karol Wojtyła. So far, only a couple of limited editions of his poems have appeared in
Behind The Scenes are a series of short sidebar articles showing the practical side of my interactions with AI as they actually happened… ME—Now the fun part… We discussed funny illustrations for this series. Let’s create the first one. Remember, we discussed AI as a spark (of intelligence) and having
Academies of Life by Stephen Rankin The philosopher and spiritual writer, Dallas Willard, of blessed memory, wrote the following exhortation in the introduction to his book, The Spirit of the Disciplines: “Our local assemblies must become academies of life as it was meant to be.” That phrase, “academies of life,”