Trust in clergy is at its lowest levels among Americans, a new survey has found. According to the Gallup poll, only 47% of the over 1,000 American adults surveyed said their trust in the clergy is either “very high” or “high”. This represents a 5% drop from 2012, and is the lowest that number has…
This afternoon is Breakaway’s Christmas party for prisoners’ children. The United States has the largest prison population in the Western world. In 2006, over 2.2 million men and women were in American federal, state, and local prisons and jails. Since 1970, the rate of imprisonment in the US has risen over 400 per cent, and…
Some of the best old and new Christian pick up lines: 1. “Is your name Faith? ‘Cause you’re the substance of things I’ve hoped for.’” 2. “Let me check out your tag—yep, just what I thought. ‘Made in Heaven.’” 3. “If I were Samson, I would let you cut off my hair.” 4. “You put…
In an interview with Forbes, Haydn Shaw, a researcher of generational differences for over twenty years, talks about why Millennials leave companies after a brief period of time and what organizations should do to retain them. His advice?
Loved this monologue by Jay Mohr at Nascar’s Champions Week banquet!
A 6-yr old boy displaced due to domestic violence wishes for a LeapFrog and its device learning games for Christmas.
This untitled and unattributed poem came from a little volume by V. Raymond Edman titled The Disciplines of Life: When God wants to drill a man, And thrill a man, And skill a man To play the noblest part; When He yearns with all His heart To create so great and bold a man That…
“Safe” theology is not only the antithesis to your becoming fully alive, it is the bedrock to a misspent life—one full of many regrets. We all want more courage. More boldness. More audacity. But audacity comes with a cost. We safely Tweet and Instagram our favorite quotes about courage. We often pray abstractedly for more…
“It is not daily increase but daily decrease; hack away the unessential.” Bruce Lee quotes
I love how Matthew Henry and A.W. Tozer describe the leadership of Elijah: “By his natural temper, he was a man of strong passions, more hot and eager than most men, and therefore the more fit to deal with the daring sinners of the age he lived in: so wonderfully does God suit men to…