At age twelve Ibrahim arrived in Italy from West Africa not knowing a word of Italian struggling with a stutter and forced to face anti-immigrant putdowns None of that stopped the hard-working young man who in his twenties opened a pizza shop in Trento Italy His little business won over doubters to be listed as one of the top fifty pizzerias in the world His hope was then to help feed hungry children on Italian streets So he launched a ldquo pizza charity rdquo by expanding a Neapolitan tradition mdash where customers buy an extra coffee caff egrave sospeso for [... more]

Dr Steve Pettit continues a series entitled Walking in the Spirt with a message titled The Works of the Flesh pt from Galatians The post The Works of the Flesh pt appeared first on THE DAILY PLATFORM [... more]

In the chaos of fleeing his home during the California wildfires of Gabe a high school senior missed the state-qualifying cross-country race for which he rsquo d been training Missing this meet meant he wouldn rsquo t have the chance to compete at the state meet mdash the culminating event of his four-year running career In light of the circumstances the state athletics board gave Gabe another chance he rsquo d have to run a qualifying time by himself on a rival high school rsquo s track in ldquo street shoes rdquo because his running shoes were in the charred [... more]

Back in my sermon-making days I approached some Sunday mornings feeling like a lowly worm During the week before I had not been the best husband father or friend I felt that before God could use me again I had to establish a track record of right living So I vowed to get through the sermon as best I could and try to live better the coming week nbsp nbsp That was not the right approach In Galatians it rsquo s said that God continually supplies us with His Spirit and works powerfully through us as a free gift mdash [... more]