No question about it! Effective Christian ministry is rooted deep in the grace of God. To begin anywhere else is to begin at the wrong…
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Helpful articles and encouragement for church leaders and lay members along with information on church activity and circumstances the world over.
The Fisherman Who Never Fished
“As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen.…
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A Faulty Line of Reasoning
There’s no getting around it: the Nazis got around it. This is the story of the Maginot Line.
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A few years ago Joe Beam wrote an article entitled, “What is Happening to Churches of Christ?” In this article Joe explained what he thinks is happening within our fellowship that is causing increasing isolation between brethren and churches.
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We serve a God of emotions. Every emotion humans experience our heavenly Father has revealed of Himself. Some of us are more emotional than others. A few of us are able to guard our emotions quite well and may give the impression we are cold–even heartless.
View More Emotionalism in Christianity When A Church Has No Elders
Let me begin this reflective analysis by saying that I firmly believe the ideal is for each congregation to have strong, Spirit-led shepherds to guide the flock.
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The number of disorders that are presently recognized by the medical and psychological communities is staggering. People are being diagnosed in record numbers and being…
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I have been reflecting on the unusual pattern I have noticed in Scripture . . . the type of people God almost always uses to…
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Reaching the Lost with a Church Website?
In 1995 I started building and marketing websites. That makes me one of the veterans of the net. I was still in my teen years and saw the Internet as the mature version of Nintendo.
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The Center of the Universe
Today my mind was sent to reflecting on Geocentricism (earth-centered universe) and Galileo simply came along for the ride. Galileo fought a serious and costly…
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The Bronze Serpent
Enrich Fromm [1900-1980], in his highly acclaimed work Psychoanalysis and Religion, which is rather fascinating reading by the way, astutely observed, “Religion is any system…
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The name Zechariah — Hebrew: Zekar-yah — literally means “Yahweh has remembered.” This was a very common Hebrew name, and we find almost thirty different…
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To “edify” simply means “to build up.” Edification, therefore, is simply the process of building up someone or something. Another word in this family is…
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Revisionist History | Revisionism
The writing of “revisionist history” is not unknown. Persons look back at an event or program and recast it in view of their own purposes.…
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Ah-Ha Moments
“As we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers” (Galatians 6:10). The above…
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