I’m super excited about the Harvest Fest happening this Friday at Riv. There’s going to be live music and food and the whole deal is a benefit for the Compassion stuff Riv is doing. Here’s the details. Hope to see you there. When? Friday, October 1 at Riv’s Holt Venue (3585 Willoughby Road, Holt, MI [...]
A few weeks ago, our weekly handout dealy at Riv featured a story from Brittany Jozwiak about what God has done in her life. For those of you who didn’t get a chance to read it, I wanted to post it here. It’s so cool to read stuff like this! I first got involved at [...]
Last week I did a little radio interview on the topic of Social Justice, which is a term getting a lot of play these days thanks to Glenn Beck and a few comments he had on the subject recently. Here’s what I shared on that interview, in a nutshell. A Historical Perspective The term “Social [...]
“Social justice without the Gospel is no different than the Peace Corp.” Churches fall into a few camps: 1) Apathetic toward their city 2) Animosity toward their city 3) Imitating their city 4) For the city
.:temperature:. Freezing .:podcast:. Coverville 346: Album Cover: Duran Duran’s Rio by Brian Ibbott From It’s Not That Easy Being Green: A sweeping, but by and large true, generalization is that during the era of the ‘60’s we Christians got many of the moral issues right (e.g., sexuality) but many of the social justice issues wrong [...]
.:mood:. Mad at my computer .:noise:. My harddrive failing Blog Name Protest4 Blog Author A grassroots coalition of people fighting against human trafficking. What is this blog about? From the “about” page: Human-trafficking causes slavery. Protest4 exists because millions are silenced through this injustice. Protest4 is one point at which we can unite our voices [...]
//MOOD: Good //ITUNES: Nothing Is Good Enough from the album “Bachelor No. 2 (Or The Last Remains Of The Dodo)” by Aimee Mann So cool. Marrianne (who goes to Riverview) is going to serve with a group called International Justice Mission. You can check out her blog here. It sounds like an amazing mission. Here’s [...]