For a few minutes on Monday, the solar eclipse took our eyes off our problems, ourselves, our plans and we looked to the sky. None of us were afraid, however. We knew what was happening. It had been explained ad nauseam on every electronic portal available. But for the Syrians, during the first recorded eclipse…Continue reading The Solar Eclipse: A Signal from Heavenly Places
…the very people we are called to serve are required to provide the support for the ones who serve them” -Pastor John Girton (pictured above with members of the community.) Pastor John Girton, Jr. and his wife left Indianapolis nearly 20 years ago, living in various cities. Although the news reports he would read about…Continue reading No Matter How Long It Takes
…having some experience with real life, I’ve learned that though we can’t change history we absolutely can change the future.” There’s an ad that runs on PBS for a river cruise company. It features the company owner, Torstein Hagen in some kind of amazing glass dome as he waxes nostalgically over a roaring fire promoting…Continue reading About Time
As a young kid you could have called me racist. I didn’t like white people. I didn’t trust white people. I didn’t want to be around white people. And I was an angry young man. But when Christ came into my life, my whole world changed…” —Charles Ware, President of Crossroads Bible College If you…Continue reading “My Whole World Changed”
One of the things I’ve learned over the years is that people stand where they sit. If your dad was a worker in a steel plant, odds are he was in a union. He voted that way and he understood the plight of the working man and you do too. If mom was a single…Continue reading Winning the Human Race
The concept of the Good Samaritan is one that is understood the world over. Here was a man who stepped over the divide of belief systems to help someone in need. It is a seminal lesson in how we are to care for each other. The man who was robbed and beaten is unidentified. A…Continue reading Go And Do Likewise
“I was involved heavily in drugs and gang violence…. I’m originally GD…Gangster Disciples. I was the guy you didn’t want to see on the streets….” Most of us, say 99.9 percent of us, have never talked to a gang member. We probably have never seen a gang member unless he was on the nightly news….Continue reading Turn Around
