Guest Post by Ben Larson I’ve noticed something about myself recently: there are some ugly tyrants in my life. They’re not people. They’re not evil. They are gifts that I have allowed to become tyrants. Here are my thoughts on them: The Tyrant of Opportunity How often have I found myself jumping into a project […]
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Photo Credit: Brody Swisher, Creative Commons One of the coolest things about Antioch has been our choice to meet in the high schools of our city. We are a church called to love and serve our city and not simply to entertain expenses and programs that benefit church-goers. As Dietrich Bonhoeffer once wrote, “The church
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, wife to President Franklin Roosevelt, was a strong leader, politician and justice-advocate. She was the chair of the first UN Commission on Human Rights and oversaw the creation of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. You can read more about that process in A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the
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Ed Underwood leads Church of the Open Door in Southern California. His blog, edunderwood.com, focuses on radical faith and radical hope in Jesus Christ. He is passionate about authentic leadership, community, discipleship and practical Bible teaching. “My mission,” he says, “is to help you walk with Jesus with more passion, live for Him with greater
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I sat in a dentist’s office this week for the fourth round of tooth extractions. It wasn’t for myself, but for my daughter. On this visit, she had her eleventh and twelfth teeth pulled—“The most any kid has had in 25 years of practice,” said the dentist. I don’t usually cry or get too sentimental,
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One of the things that has been a challenge for me in the Christian world is hypocrisy and how certain subjects get abused and end up becoming a barrier to community. For me, money is toward the top of the list. It’s not my favorite topic to talk about but the leadership at Antioch asked
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[Partially adapted from Chapter 14 in Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things] One of the key insights of the Protestant reformers was that worship didn’t happen only in church—it happened during the week as well, when believers worked as bakers and builders to the glory of God. And one of the enduring
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Guest Post by Mark Charles Below is a prayer a friend of mine asked me to help him for a new hymnal he was edited. The prayer reflects the theme of immigration and indigenous peoples, and our hope is that this prayer helps those who pray it to feel more fully a part of the
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Syriac Rabbula Gospels illuminated manuscript from ad 586. This is believed to be the earliest known Christian depiction of a crucifixion showing the Eastern form of the image at the time. Guest Post by Michael Caba The apostle said it: the message at the very heart of his faith was folly, not worth the paper
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We recently had an Art Sunday at Antioch. Art Sunday is something we came up with our first year of church back in 2006-2007 to force ourselves to think more deeply on how to include art, beauty and aesthetics in the service and message, as well as create an opportunity to speak more directly to
