“Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.” 1 Corinthians 9:25 Millenials, perhaps, have become an all too ready target for teasing. In an address to mostly baby-boomers, the Michigan Church Extension Fund VP of Marketing & Relations freely admitted that his generation –(Andy’s a millenial)– really did grow up receiving those much joked about…
According to the students at Union Theological Seminary, “we must birth new theology.” What would a new theology look like, you may ask. Well, in this case, praying to plants!
“…perseverance produces character, and character produces hope.” – Romans 5:4 I am told that, when it comes to specialized military training, boundaries of extreme deprivation and injury are being constantly tested in order to convince our elite forces that when our brains tell us we have absolutely expended 100% of our physical abilities, we’re only about 80% correct. This speaks to one of the pillars of a soldier’s success: Taking persistent, unrelenting action to accomplish your mission despite your circumstances.…
I grew up in an actual hockey town. In its glory days, Port Huron churned future stars out of the athletic millworks of the McMorran Arenas. In that atmosphere I learned that there are two kinds of hockey players: there are those that play the game in all its intensity and greatness, and then there are goalies.
What kind of world would it be if the only thing that silenced anyone ever was the truth? Shame. Ridicule. Legal-action. Expulsion. Exclusion. What if all of these tactics became powerless to the desire and proactive commitment of every person to pursue, discover, understand, and elevate what is right?