by Roger Ross | Mar 15, 2024 | Blog
I avoided it for years. Early in ministry, I began to take two-or-three-day retreats for prayer, journaling, and recalibrating my relationship with God. In the constant blur of local church ministry, they became a spiritual oasis that refreshed my soul. At the time,...
by Roger Ross | Mar 9, 2024 | Blog
What do you have trouble believing? Maybe you’ve heard people say, “I’m not an exercise person.” “I’m simply not good with money.” “I’ve never been creative.” “God knows, I’m not a leader.” “You know, I don’t really matter that much.” Most of us are all too familiar...
by Roger Ross | Mar 2, 2024 | Blog
“My mandate is joy,” says Pastor Jerry Eze. “God specifically said to me that I have a mandate that everyone who walks through our door must have joy.” Pastor Jerry Eze Pastor Jerry is so serious about joy, in 2013 he planted a church in Abuja, Nigeria called Streams...
by Roger Ross | Feb 23, 2024 | Blog
We had one more thing to talk about when she left. “No problem,” I thought. “I’ll call her on her way to work.” On any other day, that’d be an easy fix. But that morning, it was impossible. ATT’s sudden and unexplained network outage shut down all incoming and...
by Roger Ross | Feb 17, 2024 | Blog
It was a quest. When I left high school, I headed for Illinois Wesleyan University for a single purpose: to become a Marine Biologist. Doesn’t everyone go to a small, United Methodist-related college in the middle of the continent to study marine life? Things were...
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