PART 3 Scene #6 A new strategy “I wonder what would happen if we didn’t start out focusing on race…

Scene #3 JOINED BY A CUSTODIAN A custodian entered the chapel cautiously. “You alright, mister? I was going to clean…

*Scene # 1 When God Calls Moses “I m-m-ay not b-be a great preacher, but no one can say I’m…

(If you got this 2 or 3 times, please forgive the intrusion. It is because my son in law is…

Can We Defeat God Have you ever gotten frustrated with the church? Perhaps you heard that WCC or NCC took…

How A Church Listens The Intention of God At the root of our faith is an assumption that God has…

I’ve missed  a couple of weeks while I try to learn how to use my new web-page and blog. In…

Steps for churches FIRST STEPS FOR EACH CONGREGATION To expand the percentage of participants in the conversation, THE church leaders…

Guide for a personal Moral Inventory In our struggle to address racism, there are some parallels with the first steps…

GOD’S HISTORY OF SURPRISES Approaching the problem of racism from the perspective of a redemptive God means acknowledging our sins…

Where are denominations headed? What will they look like in the future? As I understand it, denominations developed more in…

Never Off the Clock (Noah was the first to plant a vineyard.) It is the end of another long exhausting…

EFFECTS OF GRIEF DENIAL “I didn’t lose a child,” I say, feeling irritation rising in me. “My focus was the…

RESEARCH Ariel pops up and heads to the kitchen for the bottle of wine and three glasses. “I’ll also get…

MY BODY BEGINGS TO SHAKE I’m silent as she holds me. Then the strangest thing begins to happen. I feel…

END OF THE DAY   I can’t tell you anything that happens from the time I leave the church until…

AN INVITATION TO TRUST A REDEMPTIVE GOD Using the cross and the resurrection as our template for how God works…

CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS How would our prayers of confession be different if we tried to reflect Christ as a body…

GOD’S HISTORY OF SURPRISES Approaching the problem of racism from the perspective of a redemptive God means acknowledging our sins…

SAVED TO COMMUNITY In God’s economy, we are saved to community. We not only need to confess, but we need…