God's Special Warriors In ever army there are special warriors. Soldiers who because of their training or skills are able to be used in ways that the average soldier could never be used. Special ops soldiers have been the difference between victory and defeat in many battles. God has alway...

An episode of “Big Love,� the HBO series about a polygamous Mormon family has courted controversy with the Mormon church....

The rain is cold and very wet. It is also much needed. And, perhaps the cold and wet day has also dampened other things. Hopefully I can be vague enough to not reveal identities and yet specific enough to speak to the issue. God himself knows that there are certainly enough examples, so protecting i...

So you all want a story? ok. I will tell one maybe two. David and I were young then. And we were tentmates. This trip forced us to go without certain items for a period of days. We had to carry what we ate, so we did not shop for junk food or munchies. We all had huge packs that we carried our tents...

A Quick Look at the Book of Revelation A Mission Practicum lesson for students in Sunset International Bible Institute’s Adventures in Missions program Dear Adventures in Missions student, As you work among the people at your posting, you will occasionally encounter folks who base much of their do...

Our Foot washing Liturgy from last year seems to be getting a load of hits at the moment... so to be helpful I'm bumping it :) http://markjberry.blogs.com/scraping.pdf It's included in "Navigatio" our book published by Proost Scraping off the Shit (A large bowl of water and Towels) Jesus knew that t...

In an unusually personal letter, Benedict XVI admits mistakes in the handling of a Holocaust-denying bishop....

I've looked at the "who" and the "why" questions related to church. The answers to these questions are the foundation that sets us up to start talking about the "how" and "what" questions. How do we do church? How are we to behave? What are we to do? I think these are where we start getting controve...

I'm really tired of feeling like I need to walk on egg shells when I talk about real life issues with Christians. I'm really fed up with bankrupt Christianology that says it isn't ok to admit the things we struggle with. I've had it with the unspoken rule that says we should all put on our happy fac...

Chris Anderson has written two very helpful articles on lust. I found them to be refreshingly practical and spiritually uplifting. In Part One he highly recommends Covenant Eyes. The leadership at our church has CE on our computers, and I agree with Chris Anderson about its effectiveness. Both artic...