Last Easter, I started the Easter column with “When I sat down to write this morning, I very nearly wrote the same column that I wrote for Easter last year!” I just nearly did it again. In fact, it ...

Music and a desire to help others know Christ as their savior was Mark Avis' dream. Stones Cry — a Fremont-based Christian band — became the reality. In the spring of 2003, Avis, the group's drummer, ...