by Wade Berry | Dec 11, 2018 | Carroll Community, Ministry, Scripture
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign...
by Wade Berry | Dec 4, 2018 | Carroll Community, Ministry, Scripture
We have begun the season that Christians across the world call Advent. It is a time when we celebrate, and think more carefully about, the coming of Jesus into the world. I hope to facilitate our thinking over the next four weeks by directing our attention to the four...
by Wade Berry | Nov 6, 2018 | Carroll Community, Ministry, Op-Ed
Today is election day, and I have been puzzling for weeks over what I should write. At first, I wanted to write some guidelines for helping us discharge our civic duty wisely, focusing on the primacy of truth. Then, I heard about Sen. Ben Sasse’s new book Them: Why We...
by Karl Fickling | Nov 1, 2018 | Carroll Community, Ministry, Op-Ed
Your church has a job opening. It could be any position, but let’s consider a part-time youth minister. The SOP (standard operating procedure) is for the youth committee to ask the nominating committee to recommend a search committee to find a youth minister who must...
by Wade Berry | Oct 30, 2018 | Carroll Community, Scripture, Theology
For several weeks now, we have been reflecting on the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus says a lot of things in this collection of his teachings, but we can boil down his message to three main ideas. He explains the principles that animate the alternate reality that is God’s...
by Wade Berry | Oct 23, 2018 | Carroll Community, Scripture, Theology
7 Ask, and it will given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, the one who seeks finds, and it will be opened for the one who knocks. 9 What person among you, when his son asks for bread, will give him...
