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Excuse me, can I have your attention? Thousands of messages flood into your personal space every day, most of which are uninvited. The most important commodity being traded every day isn’t found on the stock market or on retail shelves… it’s your allegiance. Whether you realize it or not, you are being played on a [...]
Explanations
We prefer our world in neat packages coupled with easy explanations. But too often, that’s not how life is served up at all. I was pondering that after participating in a fund raising event for a seven year old girl with cancer. This precious child faces an uneasy prognosis; her family an unwanted struggle. We lift [...]
Church on Espresso
I love coffee, especially those iced coffee drinks that punch you in the face when you drink them. It’s more than the caffeine I go for, it’s the experience of the local coffee shop environment that attracts me. I travel quiet frequently with business and use my free time to search out local coffee houses. [...]
The Beat
Every now and then, it’s critical to stop and check your position. Every single man (I’m talking to you) will have a point where the rhythms of life will blend and melt into one solid beat. No matter how hard you try to keep your own beat going… the noise of life around you will [...]
Effort
For five days I have had a tree lying across the front lawn, with no action on my part. I attacked the tree this past Saturday and watched my chainsaw slowly give up more than halfway through the cutting. After 2,356 attempts to restart my chainsaw, I decided to punt on that option. I sat [...]
Live|Bold News
SITE RELAUNCH: The Live|Bold e-zine is nearing completion. There are still a few finishing touches that need to be added to the site, but overall, the look, layout, and navigation is set. In the coming days, I’ll be adding in some refinements as well. The goal is to build a simple, interactive, online community that [...]
Upcast
By: Greg Arnold This guy, we’ll call him Luke, walks into church for the first time at the age of 45. He’s never really been involved in formalized religion, but overall you could paint him as a “good guy”. He spends his time on the weekends helping his family and playing with his kids. He [...]
Spirit of Acts
By: Steve Fandel We recently launched a study of Acts in our Sunday School class, and there’s much we can all learn as Christians from these earliest followers of Jesus. It was a whirlwind month for these disciples to be sure. In a matter of days, they experienced the crucifixtion and death of Jesus, his glorious Resurrection [...]
Saving Dates
By: Steve Fandel Dates are often significant. I’m talking birthdays, anniversaries, holidays. When I was a teenager, I recall feeling somewhat short changed over a specific date. It happened after this Catholic kid had struck a friendship with some Protestants at school. I remember them talking about and sharing the dates they were “saved”. They would sometimes recall [...]
Expectations
By: Steve Rusk What exactly are expectations? Expectations are beliefs that are centered on the future. We all have expectations – for to many of us our expectations imply inevitable failure. This might be true of we put our faith in other people alone. Is it wrong to have faith that things in one’s life [...]
Welcome, and thanks for dragging yourself over to Live|Bold! My name is Greg Arnold and I am pumped to see you here. This interactive online community is here to point every man toward the cross. Whether you have been a follower of Christ for ages, or you are just stumbling into this strange new world of faith, we have something of value to offer you. This online e-zine is a cross between a blog, a social network, a resource center, and a pulpit. My hope is to inspire you to live your faith on the outside and be a real man for God. We need you in the fight. 
