If you really wanted to badly enough, you could be eating dinner in Paris by midnight. Or you could be standing on top of the Empire State Building, or even walking on the Great Wall of China. We live in an age of unbounded possibilities. The sky is the limit, and we are consumed with […]
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Jim Martin is the Vice President of Spiritual Formation for International Justice Mission. IJM is a human rights agency that secures justice for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. His recent book, The Just Church, is a practical guide for churches to engage in life-giving justice ministry. KW: What led you to
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Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’ – Erich Fromm
Last night Tamara and I circled up with our four girls to pray. As is the norm, I asked the girls what they were thankful for and then proceeded to see which would be willing to pray for the family. Our youngest, Ashlin, who is a week away from five years old enthusiastically asked to
This week Antioch celebrated our 7th Anniversary. C.S. Lewis once said that of all the bad men in the world, religious bad men are the worst. It’s true churches can hurt people. It’s true that religious abuse happens. Therefore, it’s a tough thing to be a church and represent Christ, but we humbly exist because
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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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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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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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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This past Sunday I spoke on a Theology of Creativity and at the end I prayed, “God help us dream bigger.” That reminded me of this piece adapted from Antioch’s founding documents. May we be agents of change working out God’s redemption around us. May we be a company of fools. ********************************* Christians are out
