When someone helps the pastor,
Lonnie Davis Wesley, III, The Seven: Taking a Closer Look at What It Means to Be a Deacon, p. 81
THE CHURCH GROWS,
THE WORD GROWS,
and THE LEADERS GROW!
by Chris Eyres, an Energion Publications editor and former English solicitor. I’ve just listened to an interview with Walter Brueggemann on the topic of money, and as a result have his book on the subject on my wish list. I wrote a fair amount about property a little while ago (this is a link…
[Editor’s Note: This is another post in our series of “Why I changed my mind.”] by Steve Kindle I am the grandson and great grandson of two North Dakota state senators. In fact, my great grandfather, Steen Nelson, was the first state senator in his district when the state was accepted into the Union in…
by Herold Weiss It would seem that in the gospel accounts of the crucifixion a scene is missing. None of them tells us that when the disciples saw Jesus being crucified, one of them (we would think that it should have been Peter) said, “Everything is going ahead according to plan. Let’s go home and…
“Boundaries help define what a household, family, church, or community holds precious. However, the modern world is deeply ambivalent about boundaries and community. Although we yearn for home and a place to belong, often we find ourselves more comfortable with empty space where we can ‘sing our own songs’ and pursue our own plans. Hospitality…
by Doris Horton Murdoch John 8:31-32, NASB: So Jesus was saying to these Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth and the truth will make you free.” Is it culturally risky to share one’s testimony? Is it more…
by Nancy Petrey After my book, Habitation of Honey: Poems and Songs, was published this May, I continued to write poems, and they came in quick succession. God would inspire me with a thought or a verse from Scripture, and the words would flow out in rhythm and rhyme. Writing a poem or a song…
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