“I guess it’s been about a year now since I’ve been at church. Has it really been that long? I guess so. Man, that’s crazy.” After I prayed to open a lunch gathering for a dynamic organization in Kansas City,…
In December of 2016, one Christ Community member took a bold step. She was convicted. And this conviction found its deepest pang not in how broken she saw the world but rather in how clearly she understood her calling. She…
Wait. What does that mean? Ugh. We’ve all had times when we’ve picked up the Bible, read it, and got nothing out of it. Maybe we didn’t understand what was said or were offended by it or maybe just bored…
Are you today where you hoped your life would be? Have your New Year's resolutions stuck or do you feel stuck? No matter who you are, it’s easy to say this year has been full of ups and downs with…
Whether it’s perusing Etsy, walking around the West Bottoms, or visiting a friend in their loft, more and more I find the beauty of the repurposed. An empty warehouse is repurposed to be an artsy restaurant. An empty opera house is…
Resurrection again. (Acts 9:32-43) Yes, you read that right. If you’re anything like me, resurrection is something that’s associated with Easter or even with a guy named Lazarus who shows up in the book of John. Oh...and there’s also that…
[PART 3 OF 3] When the shrapnel of a broken world knocks the wind out of us, and we feel like we can barely breathe—let alone pray—how do we keep praying? When life transitions to a minor key, we take…
[SERIES: Part 2 of 3] When the shrapnel of a broken world knocks the wind out of us, and we feel like we can barely breathe—let alone pray—how do we keep praying? When life transitions to a minor key, we…
[SERIES: Part 1 of 3] At some off-the-map place, on September 16, 1925, in a plantation down around the Mississippi Delta, Riley B. King was born. We know him by his legendary stage name: B.B. King. This man—the man behind…
There is almost no place where the enduring sacred/secular dichotomy is more clear than in our answer to this question: Where do we worship? If you ask adherents to almost any religion where they worship, it’s likely that their answer…