Sometimes we spend more of our waking lives with our co-workers than we do with our family. We go through births, deaths...
Remembering the life, work, and ministry of Howard E. Butt, Jr., who died Saturday, September 11, 2016.
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One morning I spied my son sitting on one of the kitchen chairs, his toes easily touching the floor. I stopped and stared. Something about his posture and those long, lean legs …...
Almost every parent can tell stories about the things they have learned from their children. Sure, kids are messy and loud and try our patience. But children also clearly have the gift of innocent...
Blake Coffee - The Church Whisperer - tells us a difficult story from a church he worked with. A member had done something terrible, and the question was, "what does it mean to...
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New York lawyer A. Anjeanette Brown has confessed that her job feels miserable. It tears at her soul. In a painfully honest blog post she confesses that while the dream of making a...
Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it...
One day when my kids were much younger, I glanced in the rear-view mirror to see one of my daughters sucking in her cheeks. ...
I recently read the Didache, which is one of the oldest known Christian documents. The date of the Didache is not clear, but it is certainly older than the New Testament. It is...
One of Tina Howard's gifts as a writer is that she possesses a kind of simple honesty. Most of us want to look good in front of our friends and at church. It's...
Her first job is a unique one: religious satirist. Becky Garrison talks about life in a way that makes all of us...
I asked a classroom of women a question a few weeks ago and my words hung in the silent air. I knew...
"Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people. Remember that the Lord...
That Christmas should be a time of joy and peace is a given. That it’s often instead a time of stress and disagreement is also a given. No matter how much we try...
The office building I work in is shaped like a slight altered “H”—two wings connected by a central corridor, three stories tall...
Kelly said, "I don’t doubt that He *can* do something about anything, but to be honest, that thought no longer moves me to prayer. The question for me has become, '*Will* He do...
As a pastor, I certainly know what it means to play the numbers game. Generally the first question I get asked (especially by other ministers) is, "How many members do you have?" The second...
One afternoon, just after I turned 30, I decided it was time to finally read the Bible--the whole Bible--cover-to-cover, Genesis straight through Revelation, no matter how long it took. Excited and...
