By Mark A. Taylor Nobody forced Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital last week to accept two patients stricken with the deadly Ebola virus. Instead, Dr. Bruce Ribner, head of the Emory unit treating the sick Americans, welcomed the chance to admit them. Emory, according to Ribner, is one of only four U.S. facilities uniquely equipped to…
By Michael Herrington I have always preferred the idea of grace to mercy. If someone recorded my prayers, I would guess that thankfulness for grace would far outweigh thankfulness for mercy. If I made a word cloud of all my spiritual conversations over the last 20 years, I suspect grace would be twice as big, if…
By Chris Patton I have recently been reading in Philippians and came across a couple of verses that caught my attention. Paul, the author of Philippians, is writing to the members of the church at Philippi. He is writing to encourage them in their commitment to Christ and in doing so, he sets a high…
By Ted Schroder “When I think of the wisdom and scope of your plan, I fall down on my knees and pray to you, the Father of all the great family of God – some of them already in heaven and some down here on earth – that out of your glorious unlimited resources you…
Open Doors The following article was written by Michael (not his real name). He is a Christian leader in Egypt, which is ranked No. 25 on the Open Doors 2013 World Watch List of the worst persecutors in the world. This morning, as I was praying to start a new day with all its happenings…
By Lehi Duncan What might carrying God’s presence look like? This is an expression of the ideal as portrayed in the Scriptures. Essentially, as part of the body of Christ, we carry God’s presence with us and in us. In 1 Corinthians 3 verses 16-17, Paul says “Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s…
By Matt Smethurst Kingdom ethics. Kingdom work. Kingdom building. Kingdom focus. Kingdom ministry. Kingdom you-fill-in-the-blank. Whether employed as an adjective or a noun, the kingdom of God has become a popular subject in contemporary Christian conversation. And for good reason. It is, after all, a massive biblical category—so massive that it’s easy for the concept…