The Seven Transformations of Peter DeHaan A Personal Story of Growing in Faith and Action [This personal essay first appeared in The Transformation Project: A West Michigan Word Weavers Anthology.] A caterpillar turns into a butterfly; a tadpole...
Reflecting on Church #32: Overcoming Past Mistakes With our journey of visiting fifty-two churches over, I can reflect more on the complete experience. Today, I’ll add to my thoughts about Church #32. Our experience at this church was positive...
The Warning Signs of a Preacher Gone Bad Peter writes to caution the early church about false teachers, leaders who misguide, doing more harm to the church of Jesus than good. We need to watch out for them. Here are some of the characteristics of...
The Latter Years of Martin Luther Martin Luther wanted to work within the Church to bring about change but they kicked him out Martin Luther intended to work out his ninety-five theses within the Church leadership. However, once the masses read...
Seek First the Kingdom of God Jesus Focused on the Kingdom of God, not Church Jesus talked about the kingdom of God, but we made a church instead. What if he never intended us to form a church? After all, Jesus did tell his followers to “seek...
How Much Money Does the Church Need? We Must Be Good Stewards of All That God Blesses Us With The Old Testament church required a lot of financial support to keep it going. There was a tabernacle to build and transport. The temple later replaced...
Exploring Church Staff from a Biblical Perspective Stop Paying Clergy and Ministry Staff to Do What We’re Supposed to Do Ourselves In part one of Embrace a Fresh Perspective about Church we looked at adopting a new, biblically enlightened view on...
Embrace a Fresh Perspective about Having a Church Building We Don’t Need a Church Building to Encounter God or Enjoy Spiritual Community So far, we’ve looked at the Old Testament model for church—of building, paid clergy, and tithes—which we...
7 Things Church Is Not We Must Correct Some Wrong Perspectives about Our Religious Practices We’ve looked at how Jesus fulfills the Old Testament to provide a new way for us and our churches to function, replacing the temple, paid clergy, and...
5 New Testament Ideas for Church Discover What the Bible Teaches About Church While considering a better New Testament approach to church, we talked about the three key perspectives that Jesus changed: meeting in homes, serving as priests, and...
