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Steve's Corner
Steve's Latest Blog
A Church Needs to Learn How to Listen
July 29, 2024 | Steve
How A Church Listens The Intention of God At the root of our faith is an assumption that God has…
A New Church in a new era
July 6, 2024 | Steve
I’ve missed a couple of weeks while I try to learn how to use my new web-page and blog. In…
GET ORGANIZED, GET CREATIVE
June 7, 2024 | Steve
Steps for churches FIRST STEPS FOR EACH CONGREGATION To expand the percentage of participants in the conversation, THE church leaders…
A MORAL INVENTORY
May 31, 2024 | Steve
Guide for a personal Moral Inventory In our struggle to address racism, there are some parallels with the first steps…
WHAT IF GOD WERE SERIOUS?
May 29, 2024 | Steve
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
May 17, 2024 | Steve
Where are denominations headed? What will they look like in the future? As I understand it, denominations developed more in…
PASTORAL STRESS & ITS COST
May 15, 2024 | Steve
Never Off the Clock (Noah was the first to plant a vineyard.) It is the end of another long exhausting…
GRIEF OBSERVED (CONCLUSION)
May 10, 2024 | Steve
EFFECTS OF GRIEF DENIAL “I didn’t lose a child,” I say, feeling irritation rising in me. “My focus was the…
GRIEF RESEARCH (PART 3)
May 8, 2024 | Steve
RESEARCH Ariel pops up and heads to the kitchen for the bottle of wine and three glasses. “I’ll also get…
A GRIEF OBSERVED (PART 2)
May 3, 2024 | Steve
MY BODY BEGINGS TO SHAKE I’m silent as she holds me. Then the strangest thing begins to happen. I feel…
A GRIEF OBSERVED
May 1, 2024 | Steve
END OF THE DAY I can’t tell you anything that happens from the time I leave the church until…
WHAT IF YOU TRUSTED GOD?
April 26, 2024 | Steve
AN INVITATION TO TRUST A REDEMPTIVE GOD Using the cross and the resurrection as our template for how God works…
HOW TO CONFESS AS A CHURCH
April 24, 2024 | Steve
CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS How would our prayers of confession be different if we tried to reflect Christ as a body…
WHAT IF GOD WAS SERIOUS?
April 19, 2024 | Steve
GOD’S HISTORY OF SURPRISES Approaching the problem of racism from the perspective of a redemptive God means acknowledging our sins…
CHRISTIANITY IS A CORPORATE FAITH
April 17, 2024 | Steve
SAVED TO COMMUNITY In God’s economy, we are saved to community. We not only need to confess, but we need…
CAN GOD HELP THE CHURCH DEFEAT SIN?
April 12, 2024 | Steve
TRUST THAT GOD TRANSFORMS Redemptive Theology trusts in the creative power of God, who is not only not defeated by evil…
CAN YOU TRUST GOD?
April 10, 2024 | Steve
AN INVITATION TO TRUST A REDEMPTIVE GOD Using the cross and the resurrection as our template for how God works…
WILL GOD GIVE UP ON HUMANITY?
April 5, 2024 | Steve
What if God knew the nature of humanity and planned for it in God’s redemptive design from the beginning? Assume…
HEARING HUMOR HERE HELPS
March 29, 2024 | Steve
NOW THAT IS FUNNY Learning the Basics of Subtle HumorLet’s be clear: The goal in adding some humor to your…
THE FUTURE OF DENOMINATIONS
March 27, 2024 | Steve
THE FUTURE OF DENOMINATIONS I’d like to share some work I’d done on where denominations are headed.What will they look…