by Bryant Golden | Aug 8, 2019 | Encouragement, Love Others, Relevant Life
What does it mean to be a peacemaker? First and foremost, it is not having an absence of conflict or accommodating all sides. There are times when compromise is not the answer. When injustice and oppression happen, claiming there is good on all sides and seeking to...
by Bryant Golden | Aug 6, 2019 | Encouragement, Questions/Searching, Relevant Life
If you’ve grown up in the church at all, chances are high you’ve heard it said, “Do not conform to this world; instead, strive to be counterculture. But what does that mean?” Especially if the culture you are inundated in is the Westernized church. Let’s break...
by Bryant Golden | Aug 5, 2019 | Encouragement, Love Others, Relevant Life
No matter what faith or community you associate yourself with, you will experience rejection at some point in your life. At no point am I saying that dealing with rejection is unique to Christians; what I am saying is that Christians have been empowered uniquely to...
by Bryant Golden | Aug 4, 2019 | Encouragement, Mental Health, Relevant Life
Suicide does not take one life; instead, it impacts the lives of all the people surrounding the one who loses the fight. The ones impacted the most are family and friends, but the ripple effect continues outward to co-workers, classmates, the faith community, service...
by Bryant Golden | Aug 3, 2019 | Bible Verses, Encouragement, Relevant Life
“Blessed are the poor in spirit.” Who was Jesus talking to when He said these words at the Sermon on the Mount (Luke 6 and Matthew 5)? He was speaking to a group of people who knew what it meant to be poor, to wonder where their next meal was coming from and to live...
by Bryant Golden | Aug 2, 2019 | Encouragement, Relevant Life
It is so easy to fall into the trap of believing that the Christian life should be pain-free. But Jesus never promised to take away the pain of this world. He did promise to be with us through it all. One of the beautiful truths of the Christ story is that God...
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