ZA MAGAZINE // analogy

Just Coffee and a Muffin

Just Coffee and a Muffin you know the truth. will you share it?
in her za magazine debut, nichole relates her revelation at a caribou coffee to an important truth: people are sinning and dying all around us, and we choose to remain silent.

Tripping Blind People

Tripping Blind People you wouldn’t be that mean if you took it literally
brendan finds a verse packed with meaning, buried in a part of the bible that not a lot of people read. would you shout at a deaf guy or trip a blind girl? then why do christians abuse non-christians?

The Ways of God

The Ways of God one way…Jesus
God wants us on the path to Him, living as He did. what does this mean? buzz lays it out using david’s exquisite work in psalm 25.

The Giving Tree

The Giving Tree can God really be that giving?
buzz uses a popular children’s book to describe the christian walk to God and how God can do more than we think He can.

Unity Through Commonality

Unity Through Commonality people come together for a reason
from fiction to reality, we see numerous stories of people who were once fractured but came together. what is it that makes us come together, and what does that mean for Christians?

Jesus, the Alpha and the Omega

Jesus, the Alpha and the Omega last and first, all at once
with the wolf pack in mind, buzz describes two distinct roles that are embodied within Jesus and how we can use our knowledge of the roles to better serve God and man.

Stumbling Blocks

Stumbling Blocks grace, humility, and avoiding the stairs
a really long parable, a really short story, or merely an analogy. regardless of how one might describe this article, it probes many facets of walking with God and avoiding sin.

Chess

Chess satan plays like he knows he’ll lose
the game of the intellectual and a game representational would undoubtedly have some spiritual parallels. brendan explores how satan would play and what we can learn.

Be Holy…Like a Sunrise

Be Holy...Like a Sunrise sunrises aren’t hot and bright, but they are beautiful
Part topic, part analogy. Holiness is commanded in the Bible, but what is holiness? How do we go for it? And why would Solomon compare the pursuit of holiness to a sunrise?

People Are Instruments

Instruments you don’t applaud the trumpet, you applaud the trumpet player
christians talk a lot about pride, and for good reason. but why is it so hard to stay humble? brendan explores an analogy that put him in his place.

Jesus, Our Core Competency

JESUS, OUR CORE COMPETENCY if you’ve got good pancakes, make pancakes
a trip to the famous pancakes on the rocks in sydney, australia not only ruined brendan for other pancakes forever, but gave him an analogy that relates to the Christian’s core competency - Jesus.