Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of God and Father is this: to visit . . . widows in their distress (Jas 1.27). It happens every time. Dad asks me to eat breakfast with some widowers from his church and I hem haw around. I eventually and reluctantly agree and belly up to a Buttermilk Five. And every time I leave wondering why I would ever waffle on one […]
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ‘Do not let the tribe of the families of the Kohathites be cut off from the Levites. But do this to them that they may live and not die when they approach the most holy objects: Aaron and his sons shall go in and assign each of them to his work and to his load; but they shall not go in […]
Mark Galli wrote a provocative article at Christianity Today entitled “How to Shrink a Church.” As one who has been part of “growing” two churches to half their original sizes, I was especially intrigued. I could not agree more with Galli’s “dilemma” (pg 2). We’re (sinfully) conditioned to assume bigger is better and more equals health. Consumerism has hijacked the church so that we evaluate ministry like we would a […]