Does It Ever Seem Like God Hates You? What we may perceive as a lack of love may actually be the embodiment of it In the book of Revelation, John shares a grand vision with an epic scope, far reaching and future focused. But before we get to...
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...
I was talking with a 20-something friend and tossed out the phrase “postmodern.” His ears perked up and he asked what it meant. “You’re postmodern,” I spontaneously asserted. “I know; that’s what people tell me,” he replied,“but what’s it mean?”...
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...
My least favorite task is making collection calls, but it was again time to do so. Although it took less than an hour, I spent more than a day getting psyched up for this distasteful task. I find that I am quite adept at finding other things to...
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 where 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...
