ChristiansNSneakers: The Shoes of Peace

A new Instagram account that recently popped up called PreachersNSneakers has already amassed over 100,000 followers. The account was started by a 29-year-old graduate student living in Texas. As a self-described follower of Jesus and a follower of shoe culture, he noticed a worship leader wearing expensive shoes while watching a YouTube video. He decided to dig deeper and discovered that many pastors and worship leaders had expensive tastes in trendy shoes and clothing.

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Nothing Can Stand in the Way of You Following Jesus

Leaving home for Mobile, Alabama gave me visions of an ocean’s worth of possibilities, the endless freedom of setting my sails to the wind and plotting my own course.

Instead what I was greeted with was a long dusty desert road of poor choices, failures, and an abandonment of all things spiritual.

Yet, it was on this path that I was found.

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Raised to Life: Looking in the Right Place

Looking for love in the wrong place.

When I was in college, I was looking for love in all the wrong places. I thought I would find love in teen night clubs or in a bar. But people aren’t looking for love when they go to those places, they’re looking for fun. This is why you are disappointed when you don’t find the relationship you’re looking for. You’re looking in the wrong places.

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Raised to Life: The Resurrecting King

I had made up my mind that I wanted to try out for the 7th-grade basketball team. I stood up in class in response to the directions heard over the intercom that all who were interested were to meet in the gym. A guy in my class, I’ll call him “Tom”, pointed his finger at me and laughed saying, “You think you are good enough to make the team?” I was embarrassed. I went to tryouts but afterwards, I never checked to see if I was chosen for the team. I was certain that they wouldn’t call my name. 

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Live a Life of Love: This is How We Fight Our Battles

“Are you ready? Let’s Go!” You can hear these words echo through our suburban home each morning as we are desperately trying to leave the house to get to school on time. “Did you brush your teeth? Did you get your snacks? Did you fill your water bottle? Did you get your lunchbox, your eye glasses, your folders, your homework, your project? Don’t forget your jacket!” When are my kids ready to leave? When they are equipped for everything their day at school requires.

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Rally to Jesus

“The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat…” Isaiah 11:6. Our world has become more globalized and yet more tribalized at the same time. We are more connected and growing more dependent on each other and yet we are becoming increasingly more individualized and alone. We are more connected than we have ever been and yet more at odds with each other. But there is another way.

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Live a Life of Love: There is No Try

“He’s been dead for 45 minutes.” These were the words given to Joyce Smith when she saw her son John for the first time after he had been retrieved from the frozen waters of Lake Saint Louise. Doctors and medical staff worked diligently to try and bring life to his lifeless body. Joyce worked continually in prayer for her son. What happened next defies explanation.

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Live a Life of Love: Worship God

In college I accepted an invitation to attend a small church with some friends I had recently met. Everyone there was doing something I hadn’t seen before. They followed along with preacher’s sermon using their Bible. So as to not feel out of place I went out and bought my own Bible from a Book’s a Million in Mobile, Alabama. I was ready for the next time I went to that church.

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