So as the schedules, demands and pressures of the Holiday Trifecta invade your world, house and family, allow me to offer a short blessing to you and all whom you hold dear
11/04/2015 by Bill Brant
Phil Ware concludes his 10 part series on "Saved at Sea" dealing with sea stories in the Bible and how God has always saved his people, this time focusing on the ultimate saved at sea story, Revelation 21:1-5
11/02/2015 by Phil Ware
Ann Voskamp reminds us that there is no harm in just listening, and there can be great healing and hope and transformation.
10/30/2015 by Ann Voskamp
There are scary things in this world, but we need not fear any of them. The one who is in us is greater than the powers of this world.
10/28/2015 by Tim Archer
Phil Ware gets personal about the idols in his life and wanting to be re-Mastered by Jesus.
10/26/2015 by Phil Ware
Rubel Shelly reminds us that wild predictions about Jesus' return on specific dates often are used by sceptics to discredit Christianity.
10/23/2015 by Rubel Shelly
Jesus has overcome the world. He is the way through disaster, death, pain, and evil.
10/21/2015 by Steve Ridgell
Phil Ware talks about his NASCAR Experience and his father and passing on faith to future generations.
10/19/2015 by Phil Ware
Rubel Shelley reminds us that God does his best work through the most unlikely of people.
10/18/2015 by Rubel Shelly
What I have to offer God isn't enough. But what God can do with what I offer is more than enough. He can take my unholy life and make it right. He can take my weak faith and help me overcome. He can take my vulnerable humanity and let me say no to tempta
10/14/2015 by Tim Archer
Phil Ware reminds us that drive-by prayers and tweeting heaven and tweet prayers are ways to include God in all of our everyday activities and build upon our life of prayer.
10/12/2015 by Phil Ware
The Bible itself says this is the most important thing to know: Jesus died for your sins and was raised on the third day.
10/07/2015 by Steve Ridgell
Phil Ware reminds us that in a search for a new minister, especially a preacher or preaching minister, that we need to know our specific mission as a congregation.
10/05/2015 by Phil Ware
Phillip Morrison is back as our conscience asking us about how we sort through the refugee crisis in Syria and what are we going to do about it.
10/04/2015 by Phillip Morrison
Rubel Shelly reminds us of the character who was Yogi Berra and reminds us that we need to be certain about our communication.
10/02/2015 by Rubel Shelly
Today, now, as our world continues to spiral from disaster to warfare, to inhumanity, we must also proclaim the Urgently Important: that our Savior, Jesus Christ, has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel.
09/30/2015 by Bill Brant
Phil Ware continues his series of articles on churches facing the challenges of the interim season and uses the imagery of high mountain climbing to help us appreciate the challenges.
09/28/2015 by Phil Ware
Phillip Morrison reminds us of the need to be open-hearted to the refugee crisis both as Americans and as Christians and to see this as a moral imperative.
09/25/2015 by Phillip Morrison
The Bible says the Ethiopian eunuch was baptized and went on his way rejoicing. You can too. It was good news for the Ethiopian. It's good news for us. Everyone who is willing to put their faith in Jesus may come to him.
09/23/2015 by Tim Archer
Phil Ware continues his series on knowing the mountains on which we are willing to die -- both doctrinal and missional mountains of significance.
09/21/2015 by Phil Ware
Rubel Shelly writes about Pope Francis and the year of pardon for abortion and other sins that is available and how the world doesn't seem to get sin and wrong doing and guilt.
09/19/2015 by Rubel Shelly
The decision to follow Jesus is not about you. If anything, it is about rejecting yourself.
09/16/2015 by Steve Ridgell
Phil Ware talks about finding our theological and missional mountains and how important it is to know them if you are going to call a minister with whom to partner.
09/14/2015 by Phil Ware
Deonna Shake uses her vast coaching and playing experience to introduce a key concept called "default face" and reminds us that how we carry ourselves says a lot about us.
09/12/2015 by Deonna Shake
A ladder sits outside a window of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The ladder has been in place for over 250 years; there are writings from the 18th century that mention it. No one really knows where it came from. Nobody uses it. The ladder
09/09/2015 by Tim Archer