Posts Tagged "Jesus"
Loving Latin America: An Interview With Lisa Merritt of Inca Link International
An interview with Lisa Merritt of Inca Link International, an organization dedicated to faithfully serving the Latin American youth of Ecuador, Peru, Nicaraugua, and Colombia, with the love of Christ. Parke: You have an incredible passion and heart for the people, especially the youth, of Latin America. How was your passion for serving and loving kids in Latin America...
Read MoreI Don’t Like Christmas (the Holiday Version)
There is a push–a slightly painful, inward nudging of the heart–to do something different with Christmas. The challenge, however, is that we don’t know what different looks, sounds, smells, or feels like. So, instead of attempting change and risking a potentially gift-less, nightmare before Christmas breakdown, we simply do the same things, apply the same rules,...
Read MoreThe Rob Bell Experience
Whom Do You Applaud? The stage was set, the audience ready. 8pm and still no sign of commencement. Nothing elaborate or spectacular on the platform in front of us. No extreme demonstrations of wealth or entertainment scattered about like something from a political campaign or Hollywood movie set, just a larger than life projection screen waiting to be brought to life. A large crowd had...
Read MoreLoving Desperation
Those completely devoted to veritably loving others desperately plea and fervently grapple with the innermost limits of their hearts enduring strength to not rest until their neighbors, friends and adversaries alike are all joyfully apprehended by love, encouraged by kindness and blanketed with compassion. The truly devoted know and deeply understand that there is no greater passion, no...
Read MoreGenerosity and The Church With IndyMetroChurch’s Aaron Story
Parke: There are a lot of us wrestling with what normal Christianity genuinely looks like. In terms of generosity and the gospel, how should we respond? What does normal Christianity look like? Aaron: Well, what does it look like to contextualize the gospel in our environment and not simply try to reproduce what occurred in the early church as found in Acts 2: 42-47? While there are...
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