You Live in an Urbanized World You can run but you can’t hide. These are the words I used in my first Urban Current February, 2005. I told of sitting in an outdoor café in […]
Category: Urban Current by Charles Lyons
Biblical wisdom and bothersome insights by a city-based, city-serving, city-loving pastor
URBAN CURRENT~ Prayer-Care-Share ~ The Gospel of Good Works
The Gospel of Good Works Urban Current Pastor Charles Lyons, Armitage Baptist Church, Chiacgo, IL “I don’t do things like that,” the pastor on the other end of the line said in quiet […]
URBAN CURRENT ~ Not Your Normal Christmas Devotional
Maria described how at the age of sixteen she was lured off the streets by a young man who promised the world, but delivered nothing but pain. She was raped, drugged and sold for sex. […]
URBAN CURRENT ~ Externally Focused Pastors
Feb. 2011, Urban Current New Currents in the Deep Blue Sea February 22, 2011 is extraordinary in Chicago history. Voters will go to the polls in a unique Mayoral Primary. From time immemorial, the […]
URBAN CURRENT ~ “Outreach is cross-cultural”
The Urban Current The New Tilt I stared at the page a long time. I stared in disbelief. I was holding a major Christian magazine (not the Tribune- I said major, not the best). […]