There’s this song by Seabird – Don’t You Know You’re Beautiful…
Don’t you know don’t you know that you’re beautiful
I think sometimes we forget.
And need to be reminded.
That’s what this video illustrates.
Shea Glover, a high school senior, decided to… Read More
Caesar Agustus, a close personal friend of Herod was quoted as saying, “I’d rather be Herod’s pig than his son.”
The truth is, being a pig in Herod’s household would’ve been much safer than being a family member.
He killed his favorite wife, Mariamne (he had 10 wives), because he suspected… Read More
Insecurity is a carnival mirror…
It paints a false picture—a jaded one.
It exaggerates and amplifies the negative.
It attacks your sense of belonging and worth.
Insecurity makes you feel small and your problems insurmountable.
Consider these… Read More
I don’t know what the vision statement of the church I grew up in was, but if I were to guess based on the rapture movies they used to show, it’d be something like:
We exist to scare the hell out of everyone.
Yes, I had nightmares about missing the rapture, heads being chopped off, accidentally getting the mark of the beast, and a variety of other apocalyptic terrors.
And there were a number of times when, coming home from school and finding no evidence of family members, I’d panic and assume the worst: I had missed the rapture. For the next few minutes (until my mom came back from visiting with a friend), I’d frantically devise my ridiculous escape and survival plan… Read More
