Bo Stern is a wife, mother, writer, speaker & pastor at Westside Church in Bend, Oregon. She is passionate about helping raise money to find a cure for ALS, a disease her husband has been fighting since 2011. Her first book, Beautiful Battlefields, reveals how God uses suffering and the fierce fights in our lives for
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Guest Post by Ben Larson The lyrics and video below are from my new song “No Crow.” It was inspired by the book The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander. It would take too long to recap the whole book here, but here are two statistics from it that might totally change the way you think about
Tom Krattenmaker is a Portland-based writer specializing in religion and public life. His first book, Onward Christian Athletes, is on Christianity in professional sports. His latest book, The Evangelicals You Don’t Know, challenges the stereotypes of evangelicals in America and introduces readers to those who are bringing forth a non-partisan expression of evangelicalism and creating
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Guest Post by Melissa McCreery This is Part 1 of a 2 Part series. Last month, I wrote a post highlighting the “back to school” mentality in the United States compared with other countries. I shared some rather compelling statistics about economic instability, poverty and the state of global education. After sharing those statistics, I
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[Adapted in part from Chapter 15 of Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things] We were created in the image of God, to live in the direction of God. Sin mars us, defaces and twists us. We are bent – not the way we are supposed to be. Our relationships are
Paul said he became a Jew to the Jews, a Greek to the Greeks, and a Roman to the Romans. For Paul, the church and the Christian message were to be incarnated afresh in every culture and each situation. Truth never changes but style, language and culture does. This week during the INNOVATION series I
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A Definition for Justice in Society Bring up the question of social justice and you will get varied and often heated responses. There is tension around the term because of the history of theology and practice. It has been hotly debated, written about critically by scholars such as Friedrich Hayak and is often confused to
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Antioch is blessed to have a youth pastor who speaks wisely, with passion and truth! Check out Luke Suciu’s sermon on Leadership & Responsibility – it’s Part 2 of the INNOVATION series at Antioch. The western world is fighting the attitude of servanthood in our relentless pursuit of self-interest, personal position and recognition – but
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil. – Hannah Arendt
The Five Love Languages The five love languages are familiar to many of us from the New York Times best seller by Dr. Gary Chapman of the same name. Each love language is a way a lover expresses love to his or her beloved. They are: (1) words of affirmation, (2) quality time, (3) giving
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