Old and Cranky Gift
Methodist scholars rebrand “old and cranky” as spiritual gifts.
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The Liver & Onions Test
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…
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RV Nation: Border Crisis Solution
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…
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Windfall
Time to visit my financial planner to maximize my $600 windfall. Thankfully he reduced his fee to $700.
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Plan B?: Security Equity for Schools
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…
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“Impervise!”
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…
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Breakthrough
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…
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Christian Education in the Post Pandemic Church
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…
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A Day to Vote
For discussion see Voting Rights by State. Georgia gives hourly workers 2 hours unpaid time off to vote with the hours to be selected by the employer. Let’s do the math – A voting line with a six hour wait due to restrictions on early ballots, no water or food allowed, and loss of income…