Grief

I still remember that night as if it was yesterday. The rain thundering down, the fields flooding as lightning flashed across the sky and thunder roared in the night. I hobbled off the field after a long and grueling day of soccer practice. I remember looking up at the sky, as the rain pelted my [...]

Beautifully Broken

Miguel was not a Christian but had attended church and youth group activities with his family. One Sunday, he attended a service at the local church near his school. A lot of his friends attended this church and it was very active in supporting the private Christian school which he was attending at the time. [...]

Faith Through Futebol

It is game played by the entire planet, the game that brings us together, the game made up of many faces. Simply it is the game played beautifully. The 1958 World Cup is a pivotal moment in Brazilian history, in the history of my people. 8 years prior, we were defeated and humiliated in the [...]

Is This Really Jesus?

Winston Churchill once said, “History is written by the victors.” For much of human history this is true. Much of the historical records that we have has come from Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Italian, French, British and American historians. Each of these empires have taken the time to record and preserve the records of what has [...]