Make Laughter a Habit Laughter is about being present. When you laugh you enjoy the here and now. There are…

GO LAUGHS—WHY DON’T YOU?  Volume 3 of Healthy Clergy Make Healthy Congregations This third volume of the Healthy Clergy Make…

Remembering the Interim Sometimes it is your final actions that most lingers in the minds of people. Sometimes an interim…

AVOIDING A PARALLEL PANDEMIC We are very aware that there is a pandemic that is sweeping the world. It is…

BUILDING CONNECTIONS AMONG THE CLERGY All General Presbyters/Presbytery Executives know the challenge. First, we live in an age of institutional…

IF YOU ARE A GOOD PASTOR, OR IF YOU KNOW ONE Have you thought about why the ministry of the…

GOSSIP IS NOT ALL BAD I know the Bible is pretty hard on gossip and most churches generally condemn it…

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

RECEIVE A GIFT AND GIVE A GIFT TODAY AND THE NEXT TWO DAYS, YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY AFFIRM FRIENDS AND…

RECOGNIZE THE CHURCH’S SCANDAL For Christians to respond to the reality of racism in our lives and in our congregations,…

GOD IS NOT DEFEATED BY RACISM What we discover with the cross is that God is not only not defeated…

AN EXCERPT FROM THE PLAY “BREAD OF MANY COLORS.” The scene takes place at an officers’ retreat of a consciously…

WHERE TO BEGIN Ok, so you’ve taken a significant step in establishing a connection with another congregation that is of…

Repeated because some had a problem accessing it RACISM FROM A CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE Unless you are hiding in a cave,…

FAITH—SHAME—RACISM Unless you are hiding in a cave, you have watched and listened to this country respond to the issue…

The parable continues Abigail enthralled his adult class with her description of her call to be a nun. He assumed…

PART ONE MARRIED TO THE BODY OF CHRIST Stephen McCutchan Part one David Benedict, pastor of Good Shepherd Lutheran church,…

Psalm 13 A prayer during the pandemic 1 How long, O LORD? Will you forget us forever? How long will…

ADORATION, CONFESSION, THANKSGIVING, SUPPLICATION I was taught in my seminary class on liturgy to think of the acronym ACTS when…

GOD’S PERSPECTIVE When we consider the future of the church from God’s perspective, we are considering the subject from the…