Mar 13, 2016 | Featured Videos
Who You Think You Are is Not as Important as Who God Says You Are Many of us wrestle with the gap between our weaknesses and our dreams, between who we are and who God says we are meant to be. We feel unqualified to do God’s work or to live out the calling we imagine....
Mar 11, 2016 | Inspiration, Pastor's Life, VIDEO
Pastor Chad Norris: Getting Real Sometimes, the hardest thing for a pastor to do is to be real. There is so much pressure to be perfect, holy, and spiritually on-point that there’s very little room for the things that make you human once you become a pastor....
Mar 11, 2016 | Inspiration
Bounce houses in the church parking lot has been done . . . a lot. Easter egg hunts in the church lawn . . . yeah, there’s always going to be a couple of churches in your community doing that. And Halloween parties—I mean, fall festivals—are a time-honored tradition...
Mar 10, 2016 | Perspectives, Refreshment
Finding a good place to conduct a retreat can be challenging. Your women’s ministry group can join in with others at a retreat organized by someone else or you can conduct your own. I will address some of both. As a disclaimer, I do not have personal experience with...
Mar 9, 2016 | Perspectives
I was fifteen years old. At this time in my life, I lived on a remote and sparsely populated island in the middle of Puget Sound, Washington. In the summers of my life activities were hard to come by that would entertain and adequately distract me from the boredom and...
Mar 8, 2016 | Inspiration
In what way does a Hollywood script writer take lessons from Jesus that far too many pastors do not? They understand the power of a story. Preparing for your next Sunday sermon will typically have many of the same ingredients as those from other pastors, no matter...
Mar 7, 2016 | Perspectives
I once posted the following on a social media page: “Is God calling you to serve Him? What is your answer?” It’s a relatively straightforward question. Yes or no. And yet not so simple. Ministry leaders often walk a tightrope when it comes to recruiting volunteers. We...
Mar 3, 2016 | Inspiration, Perspectives
Intro to Greek. Intro to Hebrew. Systematic Theology. Church History. New Testament. Old Testament. Advanced Greek. Advanced Hebrew. Live, Eat, and Breathe Greek. Live, Eat, and Breathe Hebrew . . . You probably took all these classes and much, much more during your...
Mar 2, 2016 | Refreshment
The traditional paradigm that has dominated Western thought for the last four hundred years can be summed up in a simple equation: Reason + Good Choices = Transformation This paradigm grew out of the Enlightenment. When René Decartes uttered his famous phrase, “Cogito...
