by Dr. Grace Lynn Shockey | Jul 31, 2023 | Blog, Chapel
Chapel Message July 18, 2023 Introduction When Jim and I were appointed as missionaries by the IMB, we went to the Missionary Learning Center in Virginia for orientation. We were young excited and about our life ahead in East Asia. Then one day, a speaker...
by Wade Berry | Aug 5, 2021 | Faith & Heritage
For if someone wants to save his or her life/soul/self, he/she will lose it. But whoever loses his or her life/soul/self for me will find it. – Matthew 16:25 It was more than a decade ago. My wife and I were not yet married. We were both insanely busy graduate...
by Stan Moore | Apr 6, 2020 | Faith & Heritage
Everyone who has read Genesis 22:1-14 or heard it preached becomes overwhelmed by a myriad of emotions as they consider the disbelief and the agony Abraham must have experienced as he heard the Lord say: “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go...
by Wade Berry | Jun 5, 2018 | Carroll Community
On the Carroll blog, we have often talked about how sacrifice is an essential element of discipleship. Jesus is quite clear that we have to give up our lives if we are going to find the life that he has for us (cf. Mark 8:35 and parallels). Jesus didn’t just come up...
by Michael McMinn | Mar 29, 2018 | Carroll Community
Sacrifice can be a beautiful thing. My wife tells a story of sacrifice from when she as a small child. There was a little boy that lived down the street who, because of certain circumstances, was going to live in foster care, and had to ride a commercial bus to get...
