God calls His church to be a shining light in the world that points to Him In this message Skip shares how you can influence the people around you for Jesus [... more]

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ldquo Why are the statues rsquo noses broken rdquo That rsquo s the number one question visitors ask Edward Bleiberg curator of Egyptian art at the Brooklyn Museum nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Bleiberg can rsquo t blame it on normal wear and tear even two-dimensional painted figures are missing noses He surmises that such destruction must have been intentional Enemies meant to kill Egypt rsquo s gods It rsquo s as if they were playing a game of ldquo got your nose rdquo with them Invading armies broke off the noses of these idols so they couldn [... more]

I ran into an old friend who told me what he rsquo d been up to but I confess it seemed too good to be true Within a few months of that conversation however his band was everywhere mdash from charting top singles on the radio to having a hit song pulsing under TV ads His rise to fame was meteoric We can be obsessed with significance and success mdash the big and the dramatic the quick and the meteoric But the parables of the mustard seed and yeast compare the way of the Kingdom God rsquo s reign on [... more]