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May 18, 2018 0 Comments

With this being graduation time, I got to thinking about when my sons were in high school and I was invited to speak at the Baccalaureate services preceding their graduation ceremonies. I recall

May 14, 2018 0 Comments

For most of my life as a Chicago Cubs baseball fan I have had a problem. My team would start off every season full of hope and expectation, only to come crashing down

May 12, 2018 1 Comment

Mainline Christianity has been in a free fall decline since the mid 1960s.  Some want to blame it on a changing culture; others say it’s the way all organizations go sooner or later;

May 12, 2018 0 Comments

Turn around or growth are usually the result of some action taken by the leadership. Usually its not the little changes that kill a church, but the big changes that go untried.  Either

May 7, 2018 0 Comments

Although I have played many sports throughout my lifetime, baseball has always held my heart. It all started when as a young boy I would watch my hometown Chicago Cubs each Spring and

May 2, 2018 2 Comments

Turning a church around is a messy and lonely responsibility. I know because I did it three times and each time the early years were depressing enough to damped even the strongest spirit.