By Laura Adkins Are you a positive leader or a negative leader? I find that many of the lessons I emphasize to the middle school students I teach apply to my life as well. Though I know in my head that God does not want me to share gossip or exclude anyone, when I hear […]
By Kelly Carr In part two of our series on caring for God’s creation, we consider what we learn from animals. I asked our staff and writers to tell us about past and current pets. Mark Taylor, publisher: My daughter and her family have a Siberian husky. Big as he is, Nikki is a snuggly […]
By Charlie W. Starr Last November saw the release of a new Christopher Nolan film (he directed the Batman trilogy, among others). In Interstellar, starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, the earth is dying and humanity is one generation away from extinction. When some force beyond earth creates a black hole near Saturn through which […]
By Michael C. Mack 1. Do you enjoy entertaining people in your home? How about having strangers over? Why or why not? Read 3 John. 2. Look at each of the three people mentioned in this short letter: Gaius, Diotrephes, and Demetrius. What words or phrases are used to describe each one’s witness, whether positive […]
By Sam E. Stone The three short letters sent from the apostle John to first-century Christians were likely all written about the same time. Reading 3 John, the shortest book in the Bible, we see that it is similar to 2 John, but it is more specific in naming the individuals involved. Salutation 3 John […]
