Spiritual Leverage
Spiritual Leverage by Mike Powers Katherine Lee Bates was inspired to write the poem America the Beautiful after a visit to Pikes Peak in 1893 in a covered wagon with fellow teachers from Colorado College. Little did she know that those words would become one of the...
The Spiritual Consequences of Intellectual Impatience
In a culture obsessed with speed and efficiency, what if our hurry is quietly undermining the very depth of understanding and spiritual maturity we long for?
The Image We Carry
The Image We Carry by Jonathan A. Powers During his career as a pastor, Rev. David Seamands would often begin pastoral counseling sessions by handing a person a blank piece of paper and asking them to draw a picture of God. He claimed that he could learn more about a...
Why the Old Testament?
Why the Old Testament? by Bill T. Arnold Every reader of the Bible is confronted with a question: “Since the Old Testament claims God revealed himself to ancient Israel and that he will reveal himself further in the future, what do I make of these theological claims?”...
What’s Right with the Church
By tracing Saul’s transformation into Paul, Mike Powers reminds us that what is right about the Church is its God-given ability to help people begin, belong, and become who God created them to be through faith, community, and shared mission.
A Mind Strangely Warmed
A Mind Strangely Warmed By Stephen Rankin I love John Wesley’s journal entry of May 24, 1738 on his famous Aldersgate experience, which many of us recently commemorated. It just so happens, for us in the West, the event coincided with Pentecost this year. The...
Learning to Lament
Learning to Lament By Jonathan A. Powers In the months following the death of his wife, Joy Davidman, C.S. Lewis began keeping a journal. He did not set out to write a book but wrote to survive the loss that overwhelmed him. The entries were raw, unguarded, and...
Let This Methodist Preacher Lead You to Revival
Let this Methodist Preacher Lead You to Revival By Jeff Patterson I will be forever grateful that I read Preacher and Prayer by Edward McKendree Bounds (1835-1913) early in my ministry. Though named after a prominent American Methodist Bishop, he is known to history...
