A church in my community recently fired its pastor. It was a small number of folks who spearheaded the effort. It’s a big church – or it was. One hundred families have left that congregation since this action. Another congregation has lost significant numbers because a conflict between a Senior Pastor and his staff resulted [...]
Tag Archives: change
Wanting It The Way Things USE TO BE
Have you ever felt nostalgic for the good old days? Have you ever experienced a longing and yearning for the way things use to be? I remember once visiting in a home of a family with a young child. The parents of this young boy had just converted his room from being that of a [...]
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Engage
I began commenting on Joshua 3 a few blogs ago with some discussion about the iconic show, “Star Trek.” I said that the journey into the Promised Land – like the journey of all discipleship – is to move into a place where “no one has gone before.” Well, for the discipleship trek, that’s not exactly [...]
Vinyls, Eight-tracks, Cassettes, CDs, Ipods
We are continuing the theme from two recent blogs (learning lessons from Joshua 3). We know that the people of Israel are on a journey with God. We’ve said to move forward with God, they need to “leave Shittim” (an actual place in the Ancient Near East). Basically they need to leave some old things [...]
