by Wade Berry | Aug 29, 2017 | Leadership, Ministry, Scripture, Theology
The events that rocked Charlottesville, Virginia this month, and the deep and abiding tensions that they exposed, have dominated the national consciousness in recent weeks. After everything that our country has been through in the last two or three years, the last...
by Wade Berry | Mar 14, 2017 | Ministry, Scripture, Theology
When most people think of Lent, they probably think of its role in helping people confess and renounce sin. The self-denial that is inherent in how many Christian groups practice this part of the liturgical calendar is a perfect mechanism for helping people come to...
by Walter Norvell | Mar 9, 2017 | Ministry
Some Roadblocks to Prayer We have been thinking about prayer with the help of Steve Gaines’ little book, Pray Like It Matters. In our last post we discussed The Power of Praying Together. I mentioned two other outstanding chapters in his book. Today let’s think about...
by Chris Sims | Aug 4, 2016 | Education, Ministry, Scripture
Why Am I Here? Why Am I In This Mess? Great questions that I bet you have heard. Our discipleship process begins at a place where we begin to answer both. Forgive me, it is alliterated with M’s to make it easier for me to remember, train and pass on. Made...
by Stephen Suffron | Jul 19, 2016 | Ministry, Missions
I’ve been going on mission trips for a couple of decades now, and one repeated chorus is that the key word for missions is “flexibility.” Well, here I am writing this blog post from Huslia, Alaska on a borrowed computer. We were supposed to be...
