
A Love Letter to a Closed Church
You walk up the concrete steps between the tall white columns. You try the door. It doesn’t open. You try again. It is locked. It’s…
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You walk up the concrete steps between the tall white columns. You try the door. It doesn’t open. You try again. It is locked. It’s…
Last summer I joined a large group of extended family and friends at the beach. There were, on and off, about twenty-five to thirty of…
For many years, my wife and I were regular viewers of “The Tonight Show” — first with Johnny Carson, then with Jay Leno. We have…
In our culture, Christmas is a season of giving when church-goers and non-church-goers alike are inclined toward generosity. I witnessed a Christmas Eve service in which…
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For years, Harvest Church hosted a community-wide dodgeball event for teenagers. We advertised it well, and hundreds of kids participated. The winners got cool prizes…
The first impression guests leave with determines whether they will be back. So what is it that goes into a good first impression? We interviewed…
When I was appointed to pastor a new church start, I began to dream of what “my” new church would look like. By the time…
Every congregation begins as an outwardly-focused group of believers, intent on reaching out to those with whom they want to share the Gospel message. Without…
When congregations and their leaders think about worship or about mission, it often appears that they think of the two as compartmentalized and entirely separate…
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