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Televangelists

Televangelists

  The word “Televangelist” was first used in a 1958 miniseries produced by The Southern Baptist Convention. It gained widespread use and notoriety in the 1980’s as millions of dollars were poured into television ministry. It was during this time that I entered...

Appreciation when everyone is remote

Appreciation when everyone is remote

  Hi! This is Dr. Paul White, co-author of The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace along with my friend and colleague Dr. Gary Chapman. We apply the 5 love languages to work-based relationships and that’s really been helpful to a lot of both individual...

How to GO When You Can’t Go!

How to GO When You Can’t Go!

  One of the biggest challenges for most people during this current pandemic is how to move forward. Everything is on pause, and yet, American nature tells us that the thing to do is strategize, look to the future, and figure out next steps. Cancellations feel...

5 Reasons to Cling to Hope in the Midst of the Storm

5 Reasons to Cling to Hope in the Midst of the Storm

  In the midst of this pandemic and quarantine, I think of storms. I live on two islands in Alaska, and my family commercial fishes every summer out on stormy waters. So I feel a deep connection to the disciples and the two storms in the gospels. Those two storms have...

A 2020 Resurrection Sunday Question

A 2020 Resurrection Sunday Question

WERE THERE TEAR STAINS ON THE AUTOGRAPH PARCHMENT? A 2020 Resurrection Sunday Question   As far as we know, there are no surviving autographs of any of the Books of the Bible, including the newer writings of the Apostles.  An autograph is the original document as...

Thinking deeply and leaning in during COVID-19

Thinking deeply and leaning in during COVID-19

  In a matter of weeks, (almost) everything has changed. COVID-19 has transformed pastors across the country (and parts of the world) into digital-church-planters. We are learning and living on the fly, adjusting to a new normal, figuring out how to be the...

Happy Are the Hungry and Thirsty

Happy Are the Hungry and Thirsty

  I long for sad things to be untrue one day. I hunger for wrongs to be made right. I thirst for the hurt to be healed and the broken to be fixed. I want decay and death to give way to life and human flourishing. Like you, I’m longing for God’s justice and shalom...

9 Ways We’re Trying to Engage Online During this Crisis

9 Ways We’re Trying to Engage Online During this Crisis

  I can honestly say that I’ve never experienced a week quite like the one we just had in America. The coronavirus is changing our lives on a daily basis. First, the CDC recommended no large group gatherings of more than 250 people, then 50 people, and last...

Should We Have Church During the COVID-19 Crisis?

Should We Have Church During the COVID-19 Crisis?

  Wow, talk about a loaded question! Unless you have been living in a proverbial cave, it’s no secret that we are living through, probably, the most life altering crisis we have ever seen In our lifetimes. Many in our grand country are locked in a debate over how...

Fear starts a turning

Fear starts a turning

  The Old and New Testaments teem with God encounters: Abraham serving three strangers, Moses taking his sandals off to approach the burning bush, Elijah watching the Almighty pass by at Horeb, Gideon putting out his fleece as a test, Balaam’s talking donkey,...

Televangelists

Televangelists

  The word “Televangelist” was first used in a 1958 miniseries produced by The Southern Baptist Convention. It gained widespread use and notoriety in the 1980’s as millions of dollars were poured into television ministry. It was during this time that I entered...

Appreciation when everyone is remote

Appreciation when everyone is remote

  Hi! This is Dr. Paul White, co-author of The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace along with my friend and colleague Dr. Gary Chapman. We apply the 5 love languages to work-based relationships and that’s really been helpful to a lot of both individual...

How to GO When You Can’t Go!

How to GO When You Can’t Go!

  One of the biggest challenges for most people during this current pandemic is how to move forward. Everything is on pause, and yet, American nature tells us that the thing to do is strategize, look to the future, and figure out next steps. Cancellations feel...

5 Reasons to Cling to Hope in the Midst of the Storm

5 Reasons to Cling to Hope in the Midst of the Storm

  In the midst of this pandemic and quarantine, I think of storms. I live on two islands in Alaska, and my family commercial fishes every summer out on stormy waters. So I feel a deep connection to the disciples and the two storms in the gospels. Those two storms have...

A 2020 Resurrection Sunday Question

A 2020 Resurrection Sunday Question

WERE THERE TEAR STAINS ON THE AUTOGRAPH PARCHMENT? A 2020 Resurrection Sunday Question   As far as we know, there are no surviving autographs of any of the Books of the Bible, including the newer writings of the Apostles.  An autograph is the original document as...

Thinking deeply and leaning in during COVID-19

Thinking deeply and leaning in during COVID-19

  In a matter of weeks, (almost) everything has changed. COVID-19 has transformed pastors across the country (and parts of the world) into digital-church-planters. We are learning and living on the fly, adjusting to a new normal, figuring out how to be the...

Happy Are the Hungry and Thirsty

Happy Are the Hungry and Thirsty

  I long for sad things to be untrue one day. I hunger for wrongs to be made right. I thirst for the hurt to be healed and the broken to be fixed. I want decay and death to give way to life and human flourishing. Like you, I’m longing for God’s justice and shalom...

9 Ways We’re Trying to Engage Online During this Crisis

9 Ways We’re Trying to Engage Online During this Crisis

  I can honestly say that I’ve never experienced a week quite like the one we just had in America. The coronavirus is changing our lives on a daily basis. First, the CDC recommended no large group gatherings of more than 250 people, then 50 people, and last...

Should We Have Church During the COVID-19 Crisis?

Should We Have Church During the COVID-19 Crisis?

  Wow, talk about a loaded question! Unless you have been living in a proverbial cave, it’s no secret that we are living through, probably, the most life altering crisis we have ever seen In our lifetimes. Many in our grand country are locked in a debate over how...

Fear starts a turning

Fear starts a turning

  The Old and New Testaments teem with God encounters: Abraham serving three strangers, Moses taking his sandals off to approach the burning bush, Elijah watching the Almighty pass by at Horeb, Gideon putting out his fleece as a test, Balaam’s talking donkey,...

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