“Amen!” … or “Oh, Me! I could write a book about church fights I mediated (or instigated) Chapter 1 – Change of worship time … Chapter 2- Install a PowerPoint projector in the sanctuary … 3- Launch any building project … 4-Clean out and toss all the junk in an unused classroom and destroy the…
Methodist scholars rebrand “old and cranky” as spiritual gifts.
As Walmart steaks run $30 for a package of two, folks turn stares of disbelief to beef liver as the affordable cut of meat. The $300 grocery tab reinforces a gut punch that politicians delivered a message, “Let them eat liver!” Applying the liver & onions test to the church, what one ministry stands as…
How can the church, while sitting on prime real estate, recover its prophetic voice on affordable housing? RV parks raise rates over $100 per night as cities forbid public camping As the U.S. faces a double crisis of affordable housing and mass border crossings, a solution may be to create RV Nation, stretching entirely across…
Time to visit my financial planner to maximize my $600 windfall. Thankfully he reduced his fee to $700.
The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun, unless the bad guy gets the drop on the good guy. Then choose Plan B. What? No Plan B? To enter a sports arena, security frisks fans for bottled water. To enter a school, a maniac strolls…
Considering churches facing shortfalls of people and and resources, the church needs more leaders with the calling to Impervise. Impervise is a newly discovered spiritual gift that emerged by necessity in 2021, ranking right behind pastor, prophet, and teacher. A special thanks to Austin Ross and his welding Youtube channel for reminding me of expressions…
Manage to have a breakthrough this week rather than a breakdown. Change, our ever present companion Six months ago I started a new job as an insurance adjuster for the U.S.’s largest claim administrator. Sometimes I wonder if I had not followed the calling to serve as pastor of three churches, and executive pastor of…
Revelation 2:29 29 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” Over the past three years, Carol and I visited over 20 churches in the Verde Valley of Arizona. Conservative – liberal, Baptist-Lutheran, instrumental-noninstrumental, independent-denominational, contemporary-traditional. We learned that churches have acquired a progressive spiritual hearing loss. They have…
