Hospitality as the Foundation of Church Life
Had a great time at the mall recently. Â The wife gave me a dollar to spend in the arcade. Â Skeeball is certainly in heaven. Â And, in total abandonment of my normal aversion to sugar, I and my wife indulged in a chocolate chip double doozie at Great American Cookies. Now I have very good peripheral […]
5 Ways to Share the Gospel in a Crazy World
We live in a world that is torn apart by discord between nations, between political parties, between and within churches, within families… Â As a follower of Jesus, I look to find how God wants me to speak to and live in the world. Â I submit five ways for you to consider as you seek to […]
Advertising the Church
We live in a marketing-saturated world. The number of ads you see every single day is up in the thousands now (in the 1970s you would have seen about 500 a day … today it’s at about 5000 a day – CBS News). With that in mind, it’s no wonder the church is finding it […]
I Want to See My Grandchild in Heaven
I am a grandfather! I have had married children for a few years. Â And those who are already grandparents have been hounding me to have grandchildren. Â I usually tell them I don’t have much control over such matters. These folks uniformly tell me how awesome it is to be a grandparent; just play with the […]
Christmas Ignorance Shouldn’t Surprise Us
There seems to be a lot of ignorance around Christmas … and it’s not just the meaning of Christmas or the reason for the season. The very fabric of the holiday season is being torn asunder and the church largely seems to be oblivious to it. I’m not talking about the replacing of Merry Christmas […]
Where’s Your Sign?
I could see the church building from the street. I could even see the parking lot. What I couldn’t see was how to get from here to there. I was in the midst of a Sunday morning consultation and ten minutes after worship began, I strolled through the building to check on the status of […]