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Be Rad for Good

Justin Young
4 Sep 2013
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South Florida’s premier surf and skate shop, Island Water Sports (IWS), has an exciting skate contest series happening right now, with three contest events leading up to their 35th annual Daytime Radness (formerly Midnight Madness) event taking place on Friday, October 18 in Deerfield Beach. Whether you are a skater, the parent of a skater, are into the surf/skate scene, or are just a South Florida resident looking for a fun day for the whole family, you won’t want to miss out on this incredible event coming up next month. An opportunity to give back Proceeds from this year’s event […]

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How Do We Respond?

Justin Young
11 Aug 2013
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By now, countless millions of tweets, posts, blogs and articles have been written about the outcome of the George Zimmerman / Trayvon Martin case. Chances are you’ve read, and perhaps even written, more than a few yourself. Almost everyone has picked a side; some have been very outspoken about their position while others have remained more subdued. Many have cast blame in the direction they deem appropriate, and more than a few seem to have somehow miraculously passed the bar exam overnight. From the time of the incident, through every minute of the trial and continuing until today, emotions and […]

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The Davids and Goliaths

Chrissie Ferguson
6 Aug 2013
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Weird. Nerd. Fat. Ugly. Just words? Maybe. But when used to hurt someone else, words become devastating and painful. Words become objects thrown at a child, transforming his or her life forever. Bullying. It’s something that happens on the playground. It’s something that happens on the bus. It happens on the playing field and in the classroom. It happens through email, text messaging and social networks. It can even happen in a child’s home. Bullying has been around for as long as we can remember. It is recorded as far back as biblical times. Remember Goliath? He was a bully. […]

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The Psychology of Superiority

Dr. John Hawkins
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High school cliques, racial prejudice, and atrocities such as genocide all have one thing in common. They originate and exist because one group thinks they are superior to another group. This phenomenon could be called the “psychology of superiority,” and is the cause of much of the conflict in the world at various levels. A problem with a solution Psychology is the study of the human mind and emotions. A more literal translation of the word would be “a study of the human spirit or soul.” There seems to be something innate in all people that consider their group superior […]

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Who is the Good Samaritan?

Tullian Tchividjian
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For every good story in the Bible there’s a bad children’s song. This is the one I remember for the Good Samaritan: The man who stopped to help, right when he saw the need; he was such a good, good neighbor, a good example for me. On the surface, this little ditty may seem harmless. The problem, however, is that Jesus wants us to identify with every person in the parable except the good Samaritan. He reserves that role for himself. “You should be like the Good Samaritan.” If you grew up in church or Sunday School, you probably heard […]

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The Age of Social Media

Robin Revier
10 Jul 2013
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According to the Global Web Index 2013 study, there are currently over 500 million registered Twitter accounts and 359 million monthly active Google users. The stats go on and on compiling information from Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram and more. One can only conclude that it’s working. If the goal was to connect us, technology has certainly exceeded its goal. We can virtually, all day long, check in on multiple sites with each other on any topic we choose. How we’re feeling, what we’re eating, what we’re photographing, who we’re angry with, who we’re in love with…it’s a bit like Kramer […]

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This Thing Called Love

Caroline Navega
2 Jul 2013
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“I think that possibly, maybe, I’ve fallen for you…” As the song played in the background of the quaint Italian coffee shop, people ordered their café lattes and pastries, walking mindlessly past the young couple. To the passersby, they were two regular people having coffee — nothing noteworthy. That’s a fair judgment, though, seeing as how they felt the same way. “No one understands me quite like you do…” The song kept on, as though hand-picked for the scene, fitting perfectly as they sipped their lattes and let their eyes do all the talking. The only words that seemed to […]

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It’s Not Me It’s You

Tullian Tchividjian
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The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel. And there is perhaps no group of people who better embody the sin of self-righteousness in the Bible than the Pharisees. In fact, Jesus reserved his harshest criticisms for them, calling them whitewashed tombs and hypocrites. Surprisingly to some, this demonstrates that the thing that gets in the way of our love for God and a deep appreciation of his grace is not so much our unrighteous badness but our self-righteous goodness. In Surprised by Grace: God’s Relentless Pursuit of Rebels, I retell the story of […]

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Tools of Gossip

Philip Huber
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Parties and picnics are a huge part of summer where we gather with friends and family for hamburgers and hotdogs, potato salad and coleslaw, watermelon and popsicles. In the midst of all this socializing, gossip seeps in virtually unnoticed. Constant exposure has deadened our sensitivity to its soiling effect. We have set a place for gossip at our table, and the table cloth has become dingy. The silverware is set neatly around a plate piled high with gossip. The knife “A gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy person keeps a secret” (Proverbs 11:13, NIV). Gossip is a knife that […]

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Trees of Hope

Justin Young
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15 years ago, local woman Dee Proietto had an awakening. Although she had come to Christ years earlier and was even serving in ministry, Proietto had deep wounds from sexual abuse she experienced as a child; wounds that had yet to be healed. She shares, “I didn’t realize how deeply the hurt from my past was still affecting me.” Proietto began an intense search for a Bible-based resource she could turn to in order to find healing from the wounds of her past but found nothing. She continues, “My journey of healing started off with just me and God. He […]

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