Loving God in my neighbor

February 7th, 2010Robyn
About a year and a half ago, I attended Radius for the first time with my daughter Ruth. Over the course of that summer, the challenge of loving people in my radius began to seep into my soul. When school started back that year, I resigned from my community group of five years in order to stay at home on Sunday nights and get to know my neighbors.

The first Sunday night, as I sat in my neighbor’s living room trying to have a conversation as her 4 young boys crawled and played around our feet, I wondered what I had been thinking to give up Sunday night food and fellowship with [...]
 

Haiti

January 19th, 2010Valerie Miller
We all know and having been praying over Haiti over the past week. I just wanted to share some good news that shows God's provision and love over the people of Haiti.

One of my professors told a story today about Haiti she saw on the news. It was of a man who had a wife working at the bank the day of the earthquake. He has been searching for her for 6 days.. by himself... He has been digging with his hands through the rubble, knowing exactly where she worked in the bank. Finally, others began to help him. When they were able to move part of the rubble, they heard a knocking [...]
 

Oh that we would serve the body

December 22nd, 2009anonymous
Father I lift to you a prayer & a thanksgiving; That you have drawn me near to you body in need and that we have asked you to provide. Lord, give Mary the faith to know that you will provide. Encourage her to no end that you are alive and that you love her. I have no doubt that she will see her son soon in the hospital in Charlotte.. Even this night! Jesus I pray that you would give her son life, that his heart be changed and that he would know only You as his strength. For the woman that he loves; that you would give him new meaning to the pain that would drive him to take his own [...]
 

God continues to romance me.

December 4th, 2009Lindsey
here's one beautiful example of God's Big C Church moving throughout my day. i just love how he weaves throughout all the details in our life in a way that unites his body and romances them to fall more in love with him. this example shows how essential community is to our walk, alrighty. here goes:

so ive been wrestling through several things lately. one of which is my sin. god is revealing to me more and more each day all of my sin. in a way that i have never noticed it before. it has been a pretty painful process. (it's not fun realizing how much you suck). i have been [...]
 

Bless God.

October 29, 2009Valerie Miller
"I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help him. I ended up by asking him to do his work through me." - James Hudson Taylor

I found this quote today in one of those little daily quote things you sit on your desk and flip the page each day in hopes of some spark of inspiration. I'm not very good at flipping the page daily, so today I cheated and read multiple days and quotes. I came across this one. It made me giggle a little bit because this is exactly how I feel about God... or the way I'm learning how to approach God.

I have been so good at [...]
 

An Unchanging Pursuer

July 24th, 2009Casey Tucker
You are the same Lord of Heaven's Armies that spoke through Malachi to the Israelites. That was you then, that is you now. You are the same Lord that performed miracles and refined Your disciples when You waked this earth. That was you then, That is you now. You are the same, tangible, terrifying, powerful Being who blinded Paul and asked him why he did such evil things to You. You changed his heart like night and day. You made the last person who would ever serve you become the most amazingly used servant to speak Your truth. You were God then, You are that same God now. You are the [...]
 

Cars in ditches

July 16, 2009anonymous
I was driving back to my dorm tonight at about 9:30, and it was raining pretty hard. I was making a turn, and saw a car in a ditch a little ways up the road. So I got out and asked the lady if I could help her (she wasn't hurt at all, thankfully). I wanted to get back to my room and get ready for bed, but I knew God was telling me to stay until this lady got her car out of the ditch and back on the road.

Her car basically took a nose dive straight into a fairly deep ditch. Her back tires were off the ground. She was crying too.. She said she was gonna call a tow truck, [...]
 

Long overdue stories of community love

June 26th, 2009Chris Molander
Alright… Some of these stories are long overdue. But I have a lot of time tonight that I feel God has kind of handed to me to spend some good time with Him. And telling stories of Him, with Him seems to be a pretty good way to do that. So here’s the deal: God’s people are wonderful!

It’s amazing to me how many stories I could tell of Christ’s body showing me love. I’m just sitting here thinking of where to start and He’s flooding my mind with stories and stories of His goodness to me through His children.

I should have told these a long time ago!

O [...]
 

The Power of a Praying Wife...

June 25th, 2009Scott Shuford
Two weeks ago I had a rough Monday. It was just a weird day filled with all kinds of stress and temptation. I waded through all of the junk and finally made it home to my beautiful wife Jess. As we talked about the day and how crappy it was, Jess asked what she could do to fight for me and all I could think to tell her to do was pray. Pray that God would keep being God and keep asserting Himself in my life. She promised to re-double her efforts in fighting for me through prayer and we went to bed.

The next day, I had the most amazing morning! The sun was brighter, the air [...]
 

Just.... community

June 18th, 2009Ruth Miller
Alright, so truth is I'm lazy and have been meaning to write this for a while, but thankfully tonight was the climax (at least the first one) so it works out that I've put it off. For a while now, since probably about February, my friend Faith and I have been wanting to be a part of a community group. We had not really pursued it all that much until last Sunday, when we talked to Steve Hester, hoping he would stick us in a group and that would be that. But of course... that wasn't that. He tried to open our eyes to the community around us, which we definitely saw but didn't want to pursue [...]