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  • Reconcile: Finding the Right Balance in Your Life

    “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble” ~ Matthew 6:25–34 We many times use or hear phrases like “reconcile our hearts” or “reconcile the issue of…” and “reconcile ourselves” when we’re among church going people. It’s usually as we…

  • Review: Godspeed by Britt Merrick

    Just finished Goodspeed: Making Christ’s Mission Your Own by Britt Merrick, (David C. Cook). Here are some thoughts: We were made for a mission beyond the mediocrity of routine life. Careers, events and misplaced ambitions detract us from Christ’s mission to be “on mission” for Him in this world. In Godspeed, Britt Merrick challenges us. He…

  • Devolved: Pop Music or The American Dream – Can either be saved?

    Was reading through Relevant Magazine this evening about pop artist, Santigold. It details her interesting path to her current stage in life as a person and artist. But this one paragraph in which she comments on the saddened state of the “american dream” – which has followed an even more awkward path, but in the opposite…