Hit the Delete Button

As I sat down to write this blog I was brought back to when I first started teaching. I remembered as I prepared for it, I used to write it all out. If something didn’t quite line up I would either scratch it out or erase it. The problem was, it was still there:...

Does Life Have a Purpose?

by Pastor Rollan Fisher of Every Nation: Second City Church, Chicago Most of us do not spend a lot of time thinking about our purpose, at least on a cosmic scale. But the times we do can be pretty troubling, especially if we suspect that there is no purpose. On the...

Stressed Out

Author and researcher Malcom Gladwell goes to great lengths to show how your greatest weakness could be your greatest advantage. In his book “David and Goliath”, he reasons that David’s small stature was not a disadvantage to defeating the Giant, but an advantage. He...

Heaven Bound

My blog this month is a tribute to my mom, Betty, who this month went home to be with the Lord. Although my heart is breaking in two, my mind is filled with memories I will always treasure. Memories of a mom who showed me the closest thing I had known to unconditional...

Cross Training

The Apostle Paul gives us some amazing advice on how to fulfill our purpose and destiny as followers of Christ:  Philippians 3:12–14 (ESV):  “Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made...

WHEN A SONG IS NOT ENOUGH

By: Justin Gray of Every Nation Music It’s a dark day in American society, and I’m not talking about the solar eclipse. Ethnic tensions have risen to levels that we have not seen in several decades. Stories of protests, rioting, brawls, and gun violence fill our news...