No one comes to a building in its early stages and marvels at the extensive nature of its rebar. Instead, we wait until the structure actually starts to go up; we don’t want to see what makes it stable—we want to see what makes it pretty.
Even though rebar isn’t pretty, it’s ...
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Culture
Leadership Roundup: Articles Worth Reading –
10 Things I Learned From People Who Drive Me Nuts by Dan Rockwell
"The most annoying thing about annoying people is they help us grow."
Unemployment Tied to One in Five Suicides by Joe Carter
"The most disturbing effect of unemployment is the despair that can lead people to ...
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Authority, Authoritarianism, and the Millennial Generation –
Having been born in 1983, I am of the Millennial generation, or Generation Y, so it is interesting to see various statements propagated regarding Millennials. One of these that has struck a dissonant chord with me is this: “Millennials don’t respect authority” (or some variation ...
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Disciple-Making on Their Turf –
by David Mathis
Once upon a time, evangelism happened on the church’s own soil. She stood at the center of society. Most unbelieving Westerners had grown up in or around her, and felt some measure of comfort or nostalgia coming to a church building.
Occasionally, we might ...
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Ridley Scott’s “Exodus” – Let My Reason Go –
by Joshua Crutchfield
Hollywood has always been one to take notice and profiteer off of the telling public. Series like The Bible, that drew over 14.8 million viewers to the History channel, and the Emmy-nominated game show, The American Bible Challenge, that was the Game Show ...
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America’s Pastor: An Interview with Grant Wacker –
by Barry Creamer
There are a few icons in American life that are so pervasive that we cannot ignore them. Not only can we not ignore them, but we so idolize them that we have a hard time separating the icon from the person. Billy Graham is one of those figures.
I sat down ...
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