by Wade Berry | May 22, 2018 | Carroll Community
Last week, I began our conversation about how to create a church culture that affirms women by talking about the role that men in general and husbands in particular must play in creating that culture. In this week’s entry, I want to turn our attention to the role...
by Gene Wilkes | May 16, 2018 | Carroll Community
In my last blog, I ended with the question, “How do we as leaders jump the hurdle of our ‘willed loneliness’ to be ‘fully and healthily engaged’ with those we lead in order to serve them?” I want to try and answer that question in this blog post. Our natural tendency...
by Wade Berry | May 15, 2018 | Carroll Community
By now, many of you have heard about the controversy that has erupted in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) about how women have been treated by Southern Baptist leaders. It is a subject that I had no intention of addressing. I am an ordained Southern Baptist...
by Karl Fickling | May 10, 2018 | Carroll Community
Question: Why on earth would I want to take a class on the Interim Pastor, when I don’t want to be an interim pastor? Answer: When I walked out of the last day of my interim training, in 1999, I remember muttering, “I sure wish I had taken this course...
by Wade Berry | May 8, 2018 | Carroll Community
Losing My Way When I was in graduate school, and for a short time thereafter, I felt kind of spiritually lost. In part, my lack of spiritual direction had to do with the fact that I was an evangelical Protestant studying at an extremely liberal divinity school. It...
by Wade Berry | May 1, 2018 | Carroll Community, Ministry, Scripture
Last week, we talked about three mental habits that can help us combat the Enemy’s strategy for keeping us enslaved to sin. I encouraged us to lean into God’s goodness, to cultivate a balanced imagination, and to be honest about our motivations. This week, I want us...
