
Broken Vessels
“There is much to be known, life is short, and life is not life without knowledge. It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody. Thus, by the sweat of another’s brow, you win the reputation of being…

Black & White
An enjoyable hobby of mine is to lay back, relax, and enjoy my favorite Christian songs. An evening a couple months back, I had the opportunity to do so — but this opportunity was unique. I opened up Spotify, laid…

Osteen vs the Spark
To clarify, I’m one who despises the prosperity gospel. It’s a fake promise of, “God will give you money, power, and everything else” and follows with one of the two statements: “This is not how it should be, and I’m…

Tortured Poetry
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” If you had asked me beforehand what I knew about Taylor Swift, I would respond with the valid response of, “I haven’t got a clue.” Upon further research, Taylor Swift…

Back to Black
We all have secrets, imperfections, and unanswered questions. It’s what makes life as it is. Strangely enough, some of us snub others for their abnormalities — despite the abnormalities of our own. This confirms scripture’s claims that we as a…

Sanctimony
There’s a song that’s been circling pop culture that caught my attention. As with any song, your initial focus is on the flow and rhythm of the music. In this case, it’s very gothic-like and interpreted from a puritanical point…

City of Wonders
Put on your brake lights,You’re in the City of Wonder.Ain’t gonna play nice,Watch out, you might just go under. A central point of our ministry as the Millennial Spark is to remind you of your infinite value — a value…

The Unbreakable
I remember a time when I lay listening to my cd player one late evening. It was late that evening in the fall of 2008 when I had the typical high-school pressures. To understand the context, my faith at that…

The Spark is Dead
Tell all my secrets,and open my scars.Break me into pieces. Because at the end of me,At the end of me,That’s where you start. ~Bebo Norman, “At the End of Me” A shift is occurring. A paradigm has been remade. The…