ABIDE IN ME During the COVID-19 pandemic we have constantly been encouraged to socially distance ourselves from family, friends and loved ones. We’ve been reminded with signs entering any store or restaurant, we’ve seen illustrations all over the ground with arrows pointing us to the appropriate direction of traffic flow, […]
Category: Guest Writers
“Hold Fast” by Jaron Micah
Growing up I have had a different childhood than many. I say this knowing I have been blessed with my circumstances, yet still understanding it has been different. I have an older brother named Caleb who has severe autism, muscular dystrophy, and other disabilities. I often say despite the challenges […]
“Sanity” by Kyra Isaacs
I struggled with emotional and mental illness for about a year and a half. It was really overwhelming for me because like many may feel in that space, it felt like God was nowhere to be found. Until I came across this incredible scripture in the book of John chapter […]
“Dance Upon the Promise” by John Harter of The War Within
The overarching collective grief shared across generations and cultures during our current international crisis is truly something I haven’t experienced in my lifetime. Having been saved almost 12 years ago, I consider myself someone who lives each day with a great deal of hope – however, even I have had […]
“Perspective” by Sajan Nauriyal
I remember lying on the ground with my heart beating out of my chest. Staring at the ceiling seemed to be the only thing I was capable of doing in an effort to calm down from the intense panic that gripped not only my mind, but my body. It felt […]
“God Is With Us In The Mystery” by Ian Yates
There’s a lot mystery around us There’s a lot of mystery to our faith I’ve been a Christian most of my life and I’ve been at my current church for over 30 years, yet if I’m totally honest I often feel like I know less now than I’ve ever done. […]
“Trusting God Through Covid-19” by Lance Asher of Foothills Collective
I don’t know about you, but this whole season of dealing with COVID-19 has been pretty wild for me. Even as I sit down to write this, I have an undeniable feeling that I will be learning from this season for many years to come. There is something deeply unsettling […]
“Giving Grief a Voice with the Stages of Grief EP” by Frankie Orella
I was 17 when my mom died after a 5-year battle with breast cancer. It was one of those “expected but not expected” scenarios. One day she was at work, and the next her doctor told us the stage 4 metastatic breast cancer had consumed her liver and she had […]
“The Songs of Shaping Season, Pt. 1: He Reaches to the Depths of Us” by Benjamin Daniel
Shaping Season is a two-volume project of songs that I wrote roughly between mid-2016 to mid-2018. The first volume was released April 17, 2020. The second volume is set to be released toward the end of 2020 or by the beginning of 2021. What follows is a track-by-track breakdown of […]
“Daily Communion” Song Story by Nathan Vincent
Daily Communion was a song written out of a critical heart towards the ritual of communion. A little bit of background about me…. my father was a Baptist minister and church planter from 2003 to 2015. I was raised in the church and grew up pretty critical of it. And […]