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Why “Influencer Culture” Is Putting Your Child in Danger

Why “Influencer Culture” Is Putting Your Child in Danger

Emily scrolled through her Instagram feed entranced. Friends. Acquaintances. People she’d never met. All of them posting their latest grasp for approval, represented by that all-so-important number . . . likes. A guy named Ethan just posted a picture of himself posing...

God’s Call to Welcome and Embrace The Addicted

God’s Call to Welcome and Embrace The Addicted

Drug addiction is killing people just like you and me: fellow image bearers of God who are moms dads, uncles aunts daughters and sons From February 2018 to February 2019 alone, 69,000 people died of drug overdoses.  This problem has grown markedly worse during the...

Superheroes Needed!

Superheroes Needed!

It’s Them! Superheros Like an intense, action-packed Marvel movie, the stage is set, and the head-to-head battle between Light and Darkness is coming to a head. It’s taken decades to get here with the last six months progressing at warp speed. Many of God’s people are...

Has Jesus left the building?

Has Jesus left the building?

As we sit in the back pew and look around, we notice the dearth of people and wonder: Has Jesus left the building? COVID-19 has been foremost in many minds for over a year. We’ve all had our lives restricted, have had to follow orders in our personal lives from the...

The Creed

The Creed

Every Sunday, my church recites the Nicene Creed during the worship service. Sometimes, I wonder why. True, the ancient words summon a succession of images in the mind, often powerful, treasured pictures. But am I aware of what this act means as I participate in the...

Which Truth?

Which Truth?

Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. - Proverbs 4:23 (NLT) Have you ever stopped to think about WHY we need to guard our hearts...and, more importantly, what we need to guard them from? To explain this, we need to talk about two...

How did you “join” your church?

How did you “join” your church?

I grew up in a traditional church in small-town Texas and still remember people joining that church. Whether after a year or on their first Sunday, people walked the red-carpet aisle during the final hymn, and chatted with the pastor for a moment. The pastor announced...

Man of the Millennium

Man of the Millennium

In the years leading up to the turn of the century (1996-1999), several publications ran “Man of the Millennium” features, presenting various candidates for the title. TIME Magazine featured extensive reports on various candidates, Einstein, Newton, etc. Theirs was...

Church Budgets – It All Starts with Mission and Purpose

Church Budgets – It All Starts with Mission and Purpose

Addressing church budgets starts with understanding the broader context of a church’s mission and purpose. If a budget represents the financial blueprint for carrying out a church’s ministry plan for a particular period of time, then logic would dictate that such a...

How Can God be Good When the Church is Bad?

How Can God be Good When the Church is Bad?

Perhaps the biggest obstacle to belief in God in recent years has been a growing disillusionment with Christians and the church. No doubt the church has a historical closet full of skeletons. Even in our own lifetimes, horrendous evils have been exposed, with those...

Why “Influencer Culture” Is Putting Your Child in Danger

Why “Influencer Culture” Is Putting Your Child in Danger

Emily scrolled through her Instagram feed entranced. Friends. Acquaintances. People she’d never met. All of them posting their latest grasp for approval, represented by that all-so-important number . . . likes. A guy named Ethan just posted a picture of himself posing...

God’s Call to Welcome and Embrace The Addicted

God’s Call to Welcome and Embrace The Addicted

Drug addiction is killing people just like you and me: fellow image bearers of God who are moms dads, uncles aunts daughters and sons From February 2018 to February 2019 alone, 69,000 people died of drug overdoses.  This problem has grown markedly worse during the...

Superheroes Needed!

Superheroes Needed!

It’s Them! Superheros Like an intense, action-packed Marvel movie, the stage is set, and the head-to-head battle between Light and Darkness is coming to a head. It’s taken decades to get here with the last six months progressing at warp speed. Many of God’s people are...

Has Jesus left the building?

Has Jesus left the building?

As we sit in the back pew and look around, we notice the dearth of people and wonder: Has Jesus left the building? COVID-19 has been foremost in many minds for over a year. We’ve all had our lives restricted, have had to follow orders in our personal lives from the...

The Creed

The Creed

Every Sunday, my church recites the Nicene Creed during the worship service. Sometimes, I wonder why. True, the ancient words summon a succession of images in the mind, often powerful, treasured pictures. But am I aware of what this act means as I participate in the...

Which Truth?

Which Truth?

Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. - Proverbs 4:23 (NLT) Have you ever stopped to think about WHY we need to guard our hearts...and, more importantly, what we need to guard them from? To explain this, we need to talk about two...

How did you “join” your church?

How did you “join” your church?

I grew up in a traditional church in small-town Texas and still remember people joining that church. Whether after a year or on their first Sunday, people walked the red-carpet aisle during the final hymn, and chatted with the pastor for a moment. The pastor announced...

Man of the Millennium

Man of the Millennium

In the years leading up to the turn of the century (1996-1999), several publications ran “Man of the Millennium” features, presenting various candidates for the title. TIME Magazine featured extensive reports on various candidates, Einstein, Newton, etc. Theirs was...

Church Budgets – It All Starts with Mission and Purpose

Church Budgets – It All Starts with Mission and Purpose

Addressing church budgets starts with understanding the broader context of a church’s mission and purpose. If a budget represents the financial blueprint for carrying out a church’s ministry plan for a particular period of time, then logic would dictate that such a...

How Can God be Good When the Church is Bad?

How Can God be Good When the Church is Bad?

Perhaps the biggest obstacle to belief in God in recent years has been a growing disillusionment with Christians and the church. No doubt the church has a historical closet full of skeletons. Even in our own lifetimes, horrendous evils have been exposed, with those...

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