by John W. Herbst

Feasting is fun. Human beings eagerly anticipate elaborate planned meals as an essential element of celebration. We design these events to help ourselves enjoy ourselves, spending some time pushing aside cares of …

by Shola Adegbite
 
In recent times all over the world, concerns around migration are rising in unprecedented ways. Fear and distrust give rise to hate speech, discrimination, violence, and unhealthy policies. Nevertheless, Ruth’s story of migration …

by John Herbst
 
“Every dream represents a wish as fulfilled. Thanks to a relative relaxation of censorship in sleep, a dream expresses repressed desires whose satisfaction is forbidden during the waking state.”
—Sigmund Freud
Freud’s statement rings true …

by Clarence E. Wright
 
On August 28, 1963 at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered what would become his most famous speech. The speech would come to be known …

by Insook Lee
 
A long time ago, I served a medium-sized church as a seminarian. One day, the associate pastor’s wife came to see me.  I knew that she and her husband had had conflicts with …

by Cleotha Robertson
 
The theophany in the dream of Jacob (Genesis 28:10-22) occurs against the backdrop of divine revelation in Genesis, and the Old Testament more generally. It reminds the reader that the phenomenon of dreams …

by Albrecht Classen
 
It would seem that modern people tend to interpret their dreams primarily as nightmares, or else follow the analytic precepts developed by Sigmund Freud and regard their dreams as expressions of unconscious desires, …

by Linda Seatts-Ogletree
 
There are many quotes, interpretations, and axioms on dreams and visions. One very popular quote we often hear is, “Teamwork makes the Dream Work.” When we engage “teamwork makes the dream work” in …

by Larrin Robertson
 
The fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is a crucial moment in the movement toward Civil Rights to which King gave himself. King became America’s leading prophetic …

by Cleotha Robertson

In this article, an in depth exploration of Psalm 1 is discussed as a means of understanding spiritual formation along with related imagery in Joshua and Ephesians. These scriptures utilize key language important for spiritual development and highlight the co-participation of the believer and God in what is a collaborative transcendent venture. This exemplifies the joint nature of spiritual growth. The believer must be a “hearer and doer” of God’s Word, while actively “Standing” and “walking” in order to evolve. Therefore, what the Lord has put together, let us strive to keep together while co-laboring with Him.

by Kevin Yoho

Being created by God as spiritual beings, life which is sourced by The Spirit is available to all. The community of faith must always remember that the Church and its leaders are called to be authentic, open channels for God’s spiritual energy to flow through us. We ourselves however, are not the spiritual energy as discussed in this article, but rather are immersed and filled with spiritual energy sourced in God. Each of us as followers of Jesus Christ are gathered and sent on the mission to release spiritual energy.

by Jennifer Houston McNeel

As Jennifer Houston McNeel studies two key passages in scripture, she expounds first on an element of reconciliation often lost in today’s individualist culture and second on repentance as the vehicle to repentance with God. However, the feature here is not us, the recipients of reconciliation and professors of repentance, but God and Jesus Christ as the initiators of reconciling work and spirit led repentance.