The Lord’s Prayer is an excellent model for building your own prayer life. It may be used in numerous ways to organize your petitions to Our Father. It’s importance is …
Christmas Priorities
All you have to do is walk in Costco in October, and the crisis of misplaced priorities his you in the face. Christmas displays begin to tease from the warehouse …
A Short Review of Baptism
This study guide is for the purpose of giving a short overview of what the New Testament says about baptism. Read each passage and answer the questions. You will have …
Fully naked, fully known: Field notes on sex and marriage
by Katherine Willis Pershey (http://www.christiancentury.org/article/2016-09/fully-naked-fully-known) My husband Benjamin was not my first. Not my first love, and not my first . . . first. Although I once was the proud …
Teaching Calvin in California by Jonathan Sheehan
From: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/12/opinion/teaching-calvin-in-california.html?_r=0 BERKELEY, Calif. — We spend a great deal of time worrying about theology these days. From extremist violence to the American culture wars, the theological imagination can feel …
Making Mindy A Porn Star: True Confessions of a Former Porn Producer
http://fightthenewdrug.org/mindys-story/ July 31, 2014 Note from writer: I must warn you that what I’m about to share with you is dark. If you are in need of a “pick-me-up,” this …
LifeSpring Is 10 Years Old!
It’s hard to believe! 10 years ago, LifeSpring began meeting weekly at Playhouse Merced. At that time we were a small group of strangers learning what each other’s talents were, …
Being Arab
DIANA EID·SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 2016 As you well know, I try to avoid discussing any touchy topics on Facebook because I know how easy it is to misunderstand and be …
Instead of the Sinner’s Prayer
I’ve been asked more than once What do you say, then, when you are calling people to … here the words matter but I don’t want to parse them at …
What the Hook-up Culture Has Done to Women
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But …