Our Stories Unleashed

The Unwelcome Welcomer

"The unwelcome have become welcomers in the house of their God.”  - Strahan Coleman, Prayer Vol. 2  "God has a way of making city planners out of exiles. When prodigals become elders they share more wisely, lead with more humility and judge with greater compassion. When the unwelcomed are given the invitation to share, they tend to give more freely and with less care for differences because they know what it’s like to be isolated and alone, to be...

Continue Reading

The Great Comforter

I had no idea the kind of investment we were signing on for when my sister presented my oldest son, Davis, with a blanket when he was one year old. If you have seen us around, well, anywhere, you have likely seen the blanket. It has oversized moose print on one side and red and black plaid on the other. Davis, now nearing five years old, has quite literally not gone a single day without this blanket – except for the great...

Continue Reading

Showing Radical Love for the Neighbor

As a child I was taught that the “capital C Church” was the name for the corporate – the global – body of Followers of Jesus. Anyone in the world and throughout history who "calls on the name of the Lord” Jesus Christ as the Son of God is part of the “Church.” What an incredible picture that paints of who the Church is. Revelations 7:9 describes the Church as “a great multitude...

Continue Reading