Every believer should have a place that they can call home, a place that invests in them, and a place into which they can invest spiritually, emotionally, and financially. In the meantime, it's okay if you take your time finding out where that place is. [Click title to read more.]
Category: church
The Christian’s Only Necessary Christmas To-Do List
Here is my list of five absolutely necessary things I need to do over the holidays to make sure that my heart is where it needs to be. [Click title to read more.]
Don’t Let What’s Technologically Trendy Become A Stumbling Block
Technology can help our Christian lives, but it must surely not cause harm, nor prevent people from reaching Christ. [Click title to read more.]
You Don’t Have To Go To The Huge Cool Church. It’s Okay To Think Small.
There is nothing intrinsically wrong with Huge Cool Churches. I do encourage you, though, to realize that a Huge Cool Church is not the only, nor always the best, option for worship. [Click title to read more.]
I Am Starting To Have A Problem With The Church Outsourcing Its Work
I'm bothered that, as a church, we have outsourced the actual ministry of love and the work of any functional church to small group ministry. [Click title to read more.]
Sometimes It’s Good To Let A Trend Go By
Churches have personalities, just like people do. They can be reflective or extroverted, friendly or cheerful, shy or quiet. They vary in size and in demographic makeup. Because of that, it stands to reason that it doesn't make sense for every church to jump on every bandwagon - and yet, all too often, that's what happens. [Click title to read more.]
Churches: Don’t Work The Body To Death
When the next opportunity for service or ministry comes around, don't cave in to the easy temptation to call the same old people (who are really so dependable and who will do it on such short notice!) and ask them to serve, or minister, or help, or provide in some way. Find other people to do it. Let it be known loudly that it's time for that core group of workers to have a rest and that everyone else is going to have to start showing up. [Click title to read more.]
When “Take Responsibility” Becomes “Why Should I…?”
What I want to focus on is that very often exhortations for other believers to "take responsibility" for their church experience aren't our way of honestly trying to work out a difficult situation or to solve a problem together. Rather, too often, that question is a sly version of "Why should I...?" [Click title to read more.]
We Need To Rediscover The Meaning of Fellowship
I suspect that much of our current definition of fellowship - and, if I dare say it, of "doing life together" - coincides little with the concept of fellowship that the ancient church shared. [Click title to read more.]
Why Church Matters
Regardless of what we criticize or change, Christmas Eve reminded me of two things: that church is simple, and that church is necessary. [Click title to read more.]
Samaritan's Song 