The theological vision and the network of fellowship that Mission Anabaino creates help sustain its members as they slog through the trenches of church planting.

“There are certain core values any Christian can grasp — love, justice, faithfulness,” Doriani said. “We need to mentor and train people in their spheres so that doctors, restauranteurs, bankers, and builders who are believers can find these principles and share them with others.”

Pearcey explores our culture’s views ?of sexuality and offers an honest, compassionate, ?and thoroughly Christian response.

We should go to the beach more often. We should hike the mountain trails and study the forests. Because, as Lucy Shaw wrote, “To show indifference to beauty is an insult to its Creator.”

When God’s kingdom is the prism through which we view the rest of life, it also becomes our standard for assigning priorities.  

As the founder of Storytellers Creative Arts, Barnett offers individuals a chance to meet the Great Physician through creative arts so that they can experience the healing that only God can provide. 

Archer, who currently serves as assistant pastor of St. Paul’s Presbyterian (PCA) in Atlanta, notes that the Gospels were originally heard all at once. He recently launched TheaTheos, a performing arts ministry overseen by St. Paul’s, as an outreach and teaching tool for churches.

The Bible speaks to our mind’s eye. It paints pictures, draws parallels, and makes analogies. In other words, it engages us 
on an imaginative level.

God reveals Himself in a 3,000-page book and everyone, regardless of formal education, interacts with Him in the 66 books of the Bible. For that reason alone, our abilities to read, think, and reason are precious skills that must be polished. 

“There’s a lot more Scripture that builds an environmental ethic than you might imagine, and I don’t think Christians are too aware of it.”