Forgiving is Not Forgetting (but maybe it should be)
Tuesday Re-mix – This is a popular post from last year, updated and resubmitted for your consideration and comments. I used to have a great memory, especially for numbers, directions, and tunes. For...
View ArticleTrust as the Means of Healing
Tuesday Re-mix: “…speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ.” Ephesians 4:15 I was maybe 9 or 10 years old. I was at church (Dad was a...
View ArticleThe Plight of Mrs. Pastor
Tuesday Re-mix – My older daughter married a pastor. In raising daughters, there are the years when you have lots of say about who they see and who they do not see…and then those years come to an end...
View ArticleCreating Meaningful Community: “You Are Not Alone”
Tuesday Re-mix – I believe that loneliness is sweeping our culture in epidemic proportions. I also believe the church is uniquely positioned and empowered to cure loneliness. We just need to figure...
View ArticleThree Easy Steps to a Church Implosion
Tuesday Re-mix – I remember a couple of years back when First Baptist Church, Dallas, made the news with its simultaneous implosion of several buildings on its campus in preparation for a major...
View ArticleLog Removal Plans
Tuesday Re-mix – How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye,...
View ArticleThe Future of the Church…It’s Complicated
“For thus says the Lord: When seventy years are completed for Babylon,I will visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place. For I know the plans I have for you,...
View ArticleThe Blinding Power of Bitterness
Then the LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it...
View ArticleHope for the Barren Church
Because the Lord had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate her. This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the Lord, her rival provoked her...
View ArticleChurch Discipline: Finishing What We Start
Now, regarding the one who started all this—the person in question who caused all this pain—I want you to know that I am not the one injured in this as much as, with a few exceptions, all of you. So I...
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