"What’s Inside?"
“Every door science opens there are ten unopened doors on the other side and the more we learn the more we realize we don’t know.” -Dave Hunt One evening a man opens the door, entering into a beautiful new library. He begins exploring its books, computers, and music. Then looking up, he sees a large…
Read MorePlayground or Battleground?
During World War 2, three neighborhood children living in England were allowed to go out and play each afternoon. Their parents gave them only one rule. Each night they were to come home before the sun went down. One day, as the children walked past a long alley way, one of them carefully gazed to…
Read MoreOccultism in Children’s Toys?
There is a simple, consistent, yet effective formula found in the story of many of today’s (occult) toys and games for kids. The story goes something like this: creatures, spirits, monsters, etc. from another dimension or world come to this planet. Kids discover them and then discover they can play/fight against other kids, all the while…
Read MoreMaking a Difference or Making Disciples?
Jesus Christ did not simply call His followers to go make a difference. He said to go out to preach the Gospel and make disciples of all nations. (Matthew 28:19-20) The overshadowed drive of church organizations for social agendas of world PEACE plans, hunger drives, helping the needy, etc. only serves at best as a…
Read MoreEternity is Not a Movie
As a child, I remember watching movies with my parents, often waiting for the moment my dad would call out some part that made no sense to him. “Why would that person really do that?” or “There’s no way that person could still be alive after falling that far!” and other like phrases were regularly…
Read MoreA Look Behind the Curtain- Targeting Today’s Youth
Sadly, there is a very real spiritual battle that many are too happy to gloss right over. Many Christian parents and teachers earnestly desire to see their children interested in the things of the Lord, but sometimes feel like they don’t have the right tools to keep their interest once children have reached a certain…
Read MorePreach the Word!
However you catch a fish is how you’ll have to keep it. If you employ the world’s methods, means, and message to bring in lost souls (and weak believers), then those are the same avenues you’ll be forced to travel in order to keep them coming. The only difference will be once they’re in, you’ll…
Read MoreA Palette of Pageantry
Why do we get so excited about the outward business and activity of the visible church yet often have so little thought or joy concerning the Lord’s eternal work within the inner man? In the unseen heart and mind the Lord continues transforming and renewing the broken and weak into His victorious and sanctified saints.…
Read MorePlanting Summer Seeds
GOOD EVANGELISM HABITS: Over the summer, it’s easy for children to forget they still have the exciting privilege of sharing God’s Word with others. Sharing is oftentimes a scary thing to think about for children (and even many adults). I mean, walking up to complete strangers and asking them if they believe in Jesus, how unnatural…
Read MoreGungor’s Contemplative Professions – 2010
“I recently had the best meal of my life, an eight-course Japanese/sushi thing…and just the balance of the plates they’d bring and how they handled each of the flavors after the next to build to something, it was amazing.” “That’s how I wanted to approach this record. To have a palate cleanser when its needed,…
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