2016-02-23T23:19:03-08:00

Every week, we share stories about the amazing ways God is at work around the world. We hope that you’ll be encouraged by these stories and inspired to greater involvement in God’s Great Commission to go out to the world – near and far – and train, instruct, and baptize people in Jesus’ Name. This week, we start off by hearing from Al, as he reports back on what he saw God do in Costa Rica: Costa Rica is a... Read more

2016-02-24T04:12:20-08:00

From Pam Rohr, author of Blended but not Broken – Hope and Encouragement for Blended Families: Get your game plan ready. “When it’s just the two of us, we have a great relationship. Add the kids and that’s when we have problems”. I have heard this grievance more times than I can count. Remarriage with kids can be very difficult to say the least. Birth parent and child do things a certain way. They understand each other. They know what... Read more

2016-02-24T04:56:49-08:00

Welcome to the Big Picture Podcast. I’m Joel Fieri and this podcast seeks to begin and hopefully sustain a conversation about current trends, ideas and issues in the Church and greater society. This week’s podcast is part two of a mini-series we’re doing on the problem of ‘Utopianism’, and if you tuned in last week, you heard our friend, “the Late ‘Boomer’s”, take on his generation’s misguided utopian crusade known as The Great Society. Well, one person tuning in... Read more

2015-02-03T13:56:40-08:00

To purchase the entire DVD set of the Summit Lecture Series, vista summit.org. Let’s start with the cosmological argument from the very beginning of the universe – this is the argument that many say points to the Big Bang.  I just know who banged it!  In fact, the evidence for the Big Bang is quite good.  You even have atheists like Steven Hawking admitting that the universe and time itself had a beginning at the Big Bang.  Now, Hawking tries... Read more

2015-01-30T12:37:24-08:00

Ephesians 6:13-15 says Take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. 14 Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; You see, Roman soldiers wore special sandals with pieces of rock, metal or glass embedded into the bottom of the soles, much like today’s football cleats. This enabled them to move... Read more

2016-03-02T10:04:28-08:00

No matter if your bend is secular or religious, our responsibility as parents is to grow and develop our kids’ character. Now, someone is going to do this – do YOU want to have the governing voice or influence on who that someone is, or do you wan tot leave that decision to someone else? (the kids in the neighborhood, the teachers they’re assigned by the school district, even their Sunday school teachers?) THAT is largely why my wife... Read more

2016-02-24T03:25:29-08:00

From Dewey Bertolini, Pastor of The Safe Haven in McMinnville, OR: You are in for a treat! One PODCAST consisting of two precious parables. Why these two parables don’t get more attention, I’ll never know. For contained within them are two of the most blessed truths of our faith. The two parables of which I speak: The Parable of the Buried Treasure, and the Parable of the Pearl of Great Price. Two parables that, despite their similarities, reveal two totally distinct but... Read more

2015-01-29T10:41:55-08:00

From Carey Green, author, blogger, speaker, coach and pastor: Life gets crazy. Work demands, soccer games, home repairs, shopping trips, relationships to maintain, and important, ongoing conversations to have. It’s enough to make you the most inflexible person alive! On top of all that is the heart-cry we all have to discover and do what God is calling us to. I don’t know about you, but I’m in THAT place almost all the time… wondering what the LORD wants me to do... Read more

2016-02-23T03:34:34-08:00

From Certified Life Coach Dixie Diamanti, Author of Climbing Out of the Box and Fifty Ways to Meet Your Lover: I have decided in the here and now to begin to embrace my dreams; Even when I am still living by faith with no end in sight of my ever changing life. I have jumped out of the plane and am free falling until He says to pull the lever. It doesn’t feel like I am being tested so much anymore because I... Read more

2016-02-23T04:56:30-08:00

For most people, their retirement date usually is preceded by some sort of countdown – perhaps five years or even six months. For my dad, though, he went on short-term disability for his back surgery, then while recovering from his surgery, his company offered him an early retirement package with a 21-day window to either accept it or possibly be cut loose. Needless to say, being faced with a 21 day decision process compared to a five year plan... Read more

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