Degrees of Persecution

In a recent article on the suffering church, FaithWorks listed the degrees of persecution one could face for practice of religious faith:

1. Disapproval ...

Body of Christ

After an accident in which she lost her arm, a girl named Jamie refused to go to school or church for an entire year. Finally the young teen thought she ...

Harm of Radical Individualism

Many Christians have been infected with the most virulent virus of modern American life, what sociologist Robert Bellah calls “radical individualism.” ...

Teams at Their Best

In the Arkansas Democrat Gazette (2-7-99), Larry Pillow writes:

Like every graduating class in Arkansas, the 1997 graduating class of Witts Springs, Arkansas, ...

Differences Can Bring Us Together

Differences are not meant to separate us but to draw us together.

The Wisdom of the Locust

Back at the turn of the century, there was a plague of locusts in the Plains of the United States. In a matter of a few days that swarm of locusts swept ...

Lunatics Never Unite

A man went to an asylum for the criminally insane. He was a bit surprised to find that there were three guards to take care of a hundred inmates. He said ...

No Donuts?

How in the world did the early church fellowship without coffee and donuts?

No Spectator Sport

Men and women no longer take exercise in sport as they used to. Instead, people tend to sit in crowds and just watch other people play. There was a time ...

We Need Help to Sing

In Witnesses of a Third Way: A Fresh Look at Evangelism, Robert Neff's chapter includes this story about visiting a church service: "It was one ...