Are You a Sunday Morning Spectator or Performer? Church services have become an event, with consumers who come to watch a show Today’s churches contain two types of people. And each of us fits in one category or the other. We are either...
Considering the Sabbath: Are You Free or a Slave? Don’t be a slave to the Law or to legalism, but be free to accept Sunday as a gift from God The fourth of God’s Ten Commandments tells us to not work on the seventh day of the week and to keep it...
What Is Your Path? When we focus on other people, we may lose sight of our own calling As Jesus wraps up his stint on earth, he spends some time with his disciples, the core group he trained for three years. They will need to carry on without...
How a Business Mindset Influences the Church A church and its congregation shouldn’t let a corporate mentality infiltrate it’s thinking In “Why Business Practices Hurt the Church” we discussed how business thinking has improperly affected the...
The Bible Can Provide Direction for Our Lives We can receive focus for life decisions from the Word of God The Bible offers much for us, assuming we bother to tap into its treasure-trove of knowledge. One of the Bible’s uses is to provide...
Put God First: Don’t Lose Sight of What Matters Most Too often we place our personal needs over what God is at work doing When Jesus’s friend Lazarus dies, Jesus goes to were the man is interred and, with a dramatic flair, raises him from the...
Does Dropping Out of Church Mean Turning Your Back on God? Church attendance may relate to faith or the two may have no connection at all On a broader scope, I keep hearing reports that Millennials (or some other demographic) have turned from God...
Why Business Practices Hurt the Church Many churches try to operate like a business even though that model doesn’t apply In our culture we’re familiar with the structure of businesses. We either work for a business or we run one. It’s a natural...
John Calls Jesus the Word; Does that Make Him the Word of God? Considering Jesus as the Word of God shines new light on some verses in the Bible The book of John, which is a biography of Jesus, opens with a most poetic passage. It calls Jesus the...
The Bible Informs How We Understand God We get to know God better as we read about him in the Bible Is the Bible a book about God or a book about his crazy people? The answer is yes. In combining these two ideas, we can say the Bible is a book...
