By Lindsey Bell I’m a stay-at-home mom. There are some weeks I don’t see anything except the walls of our home and the things and people who reside there. On weeks like these, it’s tempting to think I’m not a leader. After all, whom can I lead from inside my home other than […]
Leadership Lessons from the Apostles
By Victor Knowles “Late in the afternoon the Twelve came to him” (Luke 9:12). The Twelve. That’s what they were called. That’s how they were known. • “He took the Twelve aside” (Matthew 20:17). • “Calling the Twelve to him” (Mark 6:7). • “The Twelve were with him” (Luke 8:1). • “Have I not chosen you, the […]
Mondays with Roy
By T.R. Robertson For nearly two years, from the first Monday in September 2004, until the first Monday in June 2006, I made a weekly trip from the Mizzou Christian Campus House to the Missouri state prison for women in Vandalia, Missouri in the company of campus minister Roy Weece and an ever-changing group […]
The Pattern of This World
By Alan Dowd To get an idea of how sex-soaked our culture is, try to look at life from the perspective of an innocent child of, say, 6 years of age. He is bombarded by suggestive, sexualized images: the magazines at the grocery store checkout, TV shows celebrating the hookup culture, the way women […]
Unfinished Spaces
By Danny R. Von Kanel Many Christians function with unfinished spaces in their walk with the Lord. My efforts to fill unfinished spaces in my life have required an understanding of what to put in and what to take out. The following principles have been helpful to me and I pray they will be […]