Kyria

60 Days to ... A Servant's Heart

Reaching out to others, being the hands and feet of Jesus, is one of the greatest callings we have in our faith. Not only does it show the love of Christ for the world, it's also an opportunity for us to worship our ever-giving God and for us to grow more into the likeness of his Son.

So for the next 60 days we're going to focus on the spiritual practices of service and outreach. Each morning spend ...

Related Topics: Attitude, Behavior, Brotherly Love, Caring, Charity, God's Love, Sharing, Missions, Service, Testimony, Witnessing

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Taking It to the Streets

It took two minutes to sink in. The pops my son Christopher and I had just heard weren't the back-firings of a balcony BBQ from the grimy apartments we always passed on our way to the park. They were bullets being fired.

Someone in or near those apartments was shooting, not very well mind you, at four strapping youths who were running across Winona Avenue and up Vaughan Road past Vaughan Road Academy, ...

Related Topics: Crime, Current Events, Intercessory Prayer, Outreach, Service

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10 Non-Obnoxious Ways to Share Your Faith at Work

I have an acquaintance, "Alice," who has been fired twice for witnessing at work. Well, that's how she explains it. Perhaps a better explanation may be that Alice's approach to evangelism is "in your face."

If there were a caricature of an evangelical on the popular show The Office, Alice would fit the bill perfectly. She embodies all the negative stereotypes our culture has about evangelical Christians: ...

Related Topics: Christianity, criticism of, Conversation, Positive, Co-Workers, Evangelism, Example, Faith, Sharing, Sharing Faith, Testimony, Witnessing

A Driving-Purposed Life

Years ago someone asked me what I wanted on my tombstone. I replied, rather flippantly, "She drove girls."

At the time I had a 1989 red Ford Tempo with 189,000 miles on it, of which 188,000 of those miles I was sure had been used to drive girls—to the mall and to volleyball practice. To softball games and the mall. To the mall and youth group at church. To the beach. To Taco Bell. To school. ...

Secondhand Witnessing

South Carolina is facing a lawsuit over the proposed production of specialty Christian license plates with the imprint, "I Believe." While opponents are asking whether or not this law constitutes state endorsement of religion, I have another important question: Why do people want these license plates, anyway?

I've often wondered why some Christians wear "Jesus" T-shirts and cross necklaces. I'm not ...

Christians Behaving Badly

I was shocked and dismayed to hear actor Heath Ledger died last month. Shocked, because Ledger was only 28. Dismayed, because I learned of his passing through an MSNBC.com article titled " Church Plans to Protest Ledger's Memorial."

Apparently, Fred Phelps's family is at it again. Fred Phelps is the founder of Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), a group known for vigorously condemning homosexuality through ...

The Society Page

I inherited an old trunk that sat in my grandma's basement. It had belonged to the generation before, who had used it to bring their possessions across the sea from Sweden. It sits in my dining room. It smells a little musty, but I treasure it as a link to my heritage.

I was thrilled to receive the trunk, but even happier when I opened it and saw my bonus surprise. The bottom was lined with pages of ...

American Woman

The question has stayed with me for nearly three years. It pops up in my consciousness every now and then like a buoy, making me a bit uncomfortable. But I'm learning that's not such a bad thing.

When I first heard the question, I was in California visiting my friends Sandie and Estera, two women I'd met the year before at an overseas conference for women in Christian publishing. Since my friends were ...

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When Your Loved One Doesn't Come to Christ

My husband asked me recently if I've ever been angry with God. It only took me a few seconds to answer, "Yes—when my dad died." His question flooded my emotions with the same anger I felt years ago that I still have to work through occasionally.

When I became a Christian as a teenager, the person who led me to Christ told me to pray for my parents, since they didn't know God. I threw myself passionately ...

Swimming in the "Lost Pool"

God dumped me. Not that I didn't deserve it; I did. I hadn't kept my end of the deal: I made excuses, let others tackle the problem, and avoided the situation altogether. So God had no choice. He dumped me into the deep end of the "Lost Pool" and my life hasn't been the same since.

A good Christian Southern girl from birth, I lived in the Bible belt and in the church building. If there were lost souls ...