‘Uncategorized’ Category Archive

Addressing Racial Bias with Carlos Whittaker

When author and speaker Carlos Whittaker witnessed his neighbor take a black can of paint to a white bunny in his front yard, it led to a beautiful moment and a conversation on racial bias. He talked about that viral video, how we as the Church should address the current movement, and hope for the future. Carlos’s book “Enter Wild” is available now! … Continue reading

Checking My Own Heart on Racism

When I was in youth group, there was a song we’d sing frequently that had the line, “Break my heart for what breaks Yours.” At the time, I remember thinking, “Starving kids in Africa. That’s what breaks God’s heart. I have Christianity figured out! Yay me!” It wasn’t until years later that I realized that patting myself on the back for having things “figured out” was far too premature. Over the past few weeks, we’ve… … Continue reading

Matthew West Writes the Ultimate Graduation Song

It’s graduation season, and even though there are countless great tunes for moving on to the next chapter of life, we thought we could take it to the next level by writing our own. We took some of your ideas of graduation cliches and had Matthew West work them into a song. As always, he absolutely killed it! What was even more amazing than the song itself is the fact that he wrote it in… … Continue reading

Dear Class of 2020

“This is so unfair. No one has ever had to go through this EVER.” Those are words pulled straight from the grade school journal of a younger, more dramatic Bekah. The occasion? Y2K. As we started the year 2000, there were fears that computers everywhere would crash and we wouldn’t be able to do life as planned. I thought the world was ending, and that seemed incredibly unfair. In hindsight, it was no big deal.… … Continue reading