On December 15, 2009 a 4-year-old was killed in an apartment fire in Norcross. The AJC story is here.
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Guest post by Jaq Baldwin

What transforms life from being relegated to a series of menial tasks, duties, and daily responsibilities into something exciting, joy-filled, and meaningful? We work, come home, play, go to bed, arise, back to work and so the cycle continues. But weren’t we made for more? There indeed is an itch that [...]

I’m making a sign today and putting it on our fridge. It’ll say:
Revelation, not Instinct
It won’t mean much to most people, but for me it serves as a reminder of a truth that staggered me today. I’m reading David Powilison’s Seeing with New Eyes and he said the following almost as a passing comment:
When we [...]

People who believe in the doctrine of creation – that God created everything and runs it all – sometimes get cranky when God ruins their lives. Consider Job: he never cheated anyone and had built a reputation of a man with a spotless conscience. But God nearly killed him. Most of us side with Job [...]

One way to know if I trust in God is to observe the first thought that enters my mind when things begin to fall apart. Mostly, for me, it’s panic. There are times when, after the panic subsides, I find some kind of peace knowing that God is my Father and He has promised never [...]

In all my life I’ve never met a person that didn’t like music. I say “like” but that is too insignificant a word. For most people, music stirs something within them like nothing else can. I don’t care if it’s country, classical, emo, or swedish polka, there is something about rhythm and melody that can [...]

On Sunday a man walked into a Baghdad police academy with a bomb strapped to his chest and killed a few dozen people. A few hours later in Illinois a man shot and killed a pastor while he was preaching. The rest of us are struggling through bear market trends, and though it feels like [...]

“What you feed grows, and what you starve dies.”
A man gave me that advice years ago and I keep it in my pocket because it explains nearly everything about living a life of faith. Knowing God is about appetite, and if I want to stop sinning (don’t we all), the worst thing I can do is [...]

My mentor keeps a nineteenth century copy of Pilgrim’s Progress on a small stand in his library. I’ve never opened it, but every Friday morning I sit at a table in that library with a few guys, drinking coffee and talking about faith and life, and I want to take it off its stand and [...]

I’ve read a lot about how to stop living as a people pleaser and most people tell me I ought to say no more, get control of my life and stop letting other people control it. Well I’ve tried that and the unfortunate thing about a law is that a law itself gives me no [...]