It really is going to be okay!

Steve Brown December 14th, 2009

I'm writing this from the Billy Graham Training Center at The Cove in the mountains of North Carolina. I'm at this wonderful conference center teaching two seminars-one for pastors/leaders and the other for "normal" people.

They house the speakers in log cabins (there are three or four of them) up on a mountain overlooking the natural cove while the people who come to the conferences stay at two fairly large and nice hotels. The log cabins are closed except to authorized pers … (Read More)

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A Million Miles to Live a Better Story

Susan Isaacs September 30th, 2009

Greetings from the road. I am traveling with author Donald Miller on his “Million Miles” tour. We’ve done ten shows in 12 days; it feels like we’ve traveled a million miles already. I couldn’t be happier.

Don is out promoting his new book, A Million Miles In A Thousand Years, and I’m the warm-up act. Opening for Don is like opening for U2. Don’s books have sold millions. Blue Like Jazz became a best seller for a reason: it hit a nerve amongst younger Christians who didn’t fit in … (Read More)

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Sometimes, I don’t like any of the answers.

Michael Spencer July 28th, 2009

Sometimes, I don't like any of the answers.

Let’s take the problem of suffering. My friend Glenda recently had a serious bleed-out in her brain. It looked for a while like she wasn’t going to make it. After a coma, two surgeries and some miraculous responses to treatment, she’s at a rehab center dealing with a relatively small amount of residual consequences.

This weekend at church, we were rejoicing in Glenda’s recovery. One person kept saying “Thank God for intervening.”

God i … (Read More)

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Pain & Raw Faith - Cliff Schrauger on SBE

Erik Guzman June 12th, 2009

Cliff Schrauger is a man with a raw faith in the face of unimaginable grief. The loss of his job and the foreclosure on his house are only the beginning of his story. Then an explosion in Iraq on Father's Day and a tragic car wreck in Michigan changed Cliff and his family forever.

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Join Cliff on this week's Steve Brown Etc. as he tells his story and talks about what's left of … (Read More)

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Angry Conversations with God - Susan Isaacs on SBE

Erik Guzman May 22nd, 2009

After forty years of being a good Christian girl, Susan Isaacs' life fell apart. Her dad died, her mom had a stroke, her career tanked and then her boyfriend of three years left her with no house and no husband…all simultaneously.

What's a girl to do? She had a nervous breakdown, took God to couples counseling, gave Him a piece of her mind and wrote Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir.

Join Susan on this week's Steve Brown Etc. as we t … (Read More)

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As We Forgive - Catherine Larson on SBE

Erik Guzman May 15th, 2009

Could you forgive the people who murdered your children, mutilated your body and left you to burn to death? Catherine Larson joins us on this week's Steve Brown Etc. to tell the story of one lady who did just that.

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Catherine's book, As We Forgive: Stories of Reconciliation from Rwanda, tells the stories of seven people who are experiencing the pain and hope of forgiveness in the … (Read More)

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