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Written by Jason Toller
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Saturday, 30 June 2007 00:00 |
 Genesis 37-48
Dreams are often romantic ideas of a life most of us are unwilling to pay the price to achieve. It is easy for us to daydream about being rich and having the "perfect" life. It is fun to think about being famous: an astronaut, a professional athlete, or for the more ambitious, the President. But when we have these dreams for our lives, how often do we think about the blood, sweat, and tears that we will have to endure in order to taste them? Why is it most people give up on their dreams? Why do so few get to live out their dreams?
Most people would look at many of us and say that we are all dreamers (or better yet, visionaries), but when you look at our lives, why have they not gone the way most of us dreamed?
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Written by Paul Haggerty
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Friday, 30 June 2006 00:00 |
 In Wild at Heart John Eldredge describes why God made men the way He did. Mr. Eldredge argues that God designed a man with three basic longings: a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. God did this so that through these longings every man would be driven somehow to fulfill God's plan for His creation. After the book became wildly successful, it became evident that there was a need for some revelation on the better half of humanity. Captivating finally hit bookstores four years later.
It seems that women have some longings of their own, and, wouldn't you know it, they are different than those of men! According to Stasi and John, a woman also has three basic longings: to unveil beauty, to be romanced, and to be part of a great adventure. The authors reveal that many issues women deal with
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Written by Jason Toller
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Thursday, 30 March 2006 00:00 |
 Israel, Jews and the Old Testament are all things that we might find interesting. But how often do we look to Israel for lessons on how the Kingdom of G-d should be? Do we look at the history of Jews to learn the lessons of those who have spent hundreds of generations worshipping G-d? These things are the soul of our faith! When we read the Old Testament do we see poetry, romance and adventure or do we see a bunch of "irrelevant" laws and a "boring" quiet time?
Over the last few years, it has become popular to question leaders, challenge methods and to look for new ways of doing things. We have gone from "don't tell me what to do" or "I don't need any help" to looking for a "Purpose Driven Life". While we must always question methods and search for better ones, let us not lose sight of what is really important: faith, hope and love.
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