Man's God given Nature and Task

I know its been a long time since I posted last, sorry about that. But like Josh said earlier I was stranded without the internet in a beau...

Fighting Materialism Mentality Continued: The Value Of Stuff

In continuing the conversation about fighting materialism (that seems to be my niche here), I just read an essay by Paul Graham that furth...

The Mindless Menace of Violence

The following is an excerpt from a speech given by Senator Robert F. Kennedy, his words are powerful and sadly, still very applicable to ou...

Fill us up and Send us Out!

God of Justice (We Must Go) by Tim Hughes God of Justice, Saviour to all Came to rescue the weak and the poor Chose to serve and not b...

“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God”

Is it ok to criticize the United States government? Often doing so will get mixed and intermingled with criticizing the military in the mind...

Uganda's daily rate of violent deaths is three times Iraq's

The rate of violent deaths in war-ravaged northern Uganda is three times higher than in Iraq and the 20-year insurgency has cost $1.7bn (£...

Are We Asleep in the Light?

Read the lyrics to this song and ask yourself if it sounds familiar... "Asleep in the Light" by Keith Green Do you see, do you...

Why Should We Care?

As Americans do we really care about the hurting that is going on around the world? We aren't directly affected by any of the suffering...

Fighting The Materialism Mentality

"I have three things I'd like to say to you today," evangelist and author Tony Campolo proclaimed to an auditorium full of Chr...

Right? Left? Where does God stand?

There is a question that I have been grappling with recently, I seem to have come to a conclusion but I am interested to hear what others t...

Updates on Uganda

The humanitarian situation in northern Uganda is deteriorating as a result of heightened insecurity, general disruption of economic activiti...

Loans that Change Lives

Thanks to my good friend Josh Mock I am now aware of this really cool website! http://www.kiva.org/ Kiva lets you lend to a specific entrep...

Richer Than We Think...

I recently was told about this website http://www.globalrichlist.com/ and after going to the site I have been greatly convicted of the afflu...

Undeniable Realities

Undeniable Realities Facing Humanity: 1. Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day 2. Less than one...

Insights of an Irish Philosopher

"No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." -Edmund Burke When considering t...

What the Media Wont Show

This is a photo of my dear friend Lance, he was recently deployed to Iraq with the 82nd Airborne and will be there for a while. Now althoug...

Preying on Children

Bellow is a portion of a recent news article regarding child soldiers in Sri Lanka, see the entire article at http://www.asiantribune.com/in...

The Global Issue of Child Soldiers

Currently there are twenty-seven (27) countries worldwide that employ the use of child soldiers, fourteen (14) of those countries being in A...

Giving Ourselves Away

Random thought/encouragement for the day: What would it look like to truly "give ourself away"? Christ lays it out for us very pl...

One Voice for the Voiceless

I found out about this upcoming opportunity through a good friend of mine, like the IC post from earlier more information can be found at th...

Displace Me

My roommate and I are planning on taking part in the newest Invisible Children demonstration, its called Displace Me and all of the followin...

The Complete Gospel

Today in chapel the speaker reminded us of a truth that is often lost sight of by many Christians, being that, like the cross the complete g...

Bono's Challenge

Mt. 6:19-20a “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up ...