When I (Crilly) think of dinosaurs, I am immediately taken back to a childhood memory of my grandma’s home. My Grandmother Crilly was a child of the Depression. She grew up a fatherless immigrant and married very young, only to divorce her abusive first husband and marry my grandfather, a quiet and gentle man. My grandma was a neat freak, probably with an obsessive-compulsive disorder that manifested itself in cleanliness. She put paper towels between every plate in the cabinet. She was constantly concerned about bugs getting into her home. She had clear plastic covering her nice sofa and chairs....Read more …

Have you ever seen those statistics that show how much time the average person might spend on certain activities throughout their lives? For example, it’s been said that the average person spends 2 years of their life watching commercials, 2.5 years cooking, and just over 4 years driving their car. All kinds of activities get measured—but one in particular typically comes out at the top: work. Did you know that, on average, a person spends 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, in the workplace?! That’s 2080 hours in a workplace during a typical year—just think about how much time that...Read more …

This is Walk the Way. Brought to you by Q Place, I’m Jeff Klein. Do our methods match the Master’s ways? When it comes to telling the world about the Gospel we believe in and who it is that we follow, I find the methods chosen by some Christians interesting to say the least. Is blatant violence, yelling, and anger really spreading the good news of the gospel? And if the medium is the message, what are we actually saying our message is by acting that way? Will our snarled faces and defensive postures accomplish anything? Are these God’s ways?...Read more …

I’ve been reading the book Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus by Nabeel Qureshi. It’s the author’s own story of the friendships, investigations, and dreams that God used to lead him to Himself. As I read, I found his comments about Christians and their ways of evangelism interesting and insightful to say the least. For example, he writes: There is a simple reason I never listened to street preachers…they treated me like an object of their agenda. Unfortunately, I have found that many Christians think of evangelism the same way, foisting Christian beliefs on strangers in chance encounters. The problem with this approach is...Read more …