Ah, the old effort, excellence, exclusion dilemma: your level of excellence didn’t meet the standard and you are excluded from participating.
Effort, Excellence, and Exclusion: Three Challenging “E” Words
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How an Act of Grace Could End Up Saving You
Grace: it’s a radical approach that Jesus spoke into a famous phrase: ‘Bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you’.
Guarding God’s Reputation
Have you ever heard a preacher speaker express a view about God that made you think, “Well, that makes God sound petty and small”?
The Avatar Effect – And How to Beat it
The Avatar Effect: That phenomenon where, after watching Avatar, rather than relishing its cinematic escapism, viewers become depressed.
Fast Food? Jesus Would Make a Meal Out of It
Jesus probably wasn’t too fussy about what he ate. He even did some fast food eating himself one time… grain on the run.
Our Responsibility to the Future
Christians owe it to the future to again be classified as the kindest of all – people who love well, live well and serve well, writes Brian Harris.
5 Better Measures of Success
We all have different measures for success. But as Christians, the more important question is to ask ourselves, “Who defines our success?”
Can We Ever Find True Equality?
God declares all humans equal because we are created in his image, no matter how much we earn, how we look or where we live, writes Robert Martin.
The Reason to Rejoice
Whether you are in a time of rejoicing or a time of suffering, you will always have a reason to rejoice, writes Dr Eliezer Gonzalez.
Try a Little Kindness – The Results Can Be Surprising
Offering a kind word can not only make someone’s day better, but knowing someone is thinking about them, can make all the difference in the world.