Rubel Shelley reminds us that God does his best work through the most unlikely of people.
10/18/2015 by Rubel Shelly
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
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
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
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
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
Stacy Voss shares the parallel between a house burned by a nearby car and the destruction in her life because of infidelity and divorce.
09/04/2015 by Stacy Voss
Rubel Shelly reminds us that the heroes of scripture had to endure many of the same kinds of challenges we do, that is what makes their witness so powerful.
08/28/2015 by Rubel Shelly
Phil Ware shares a passion on his heart about the way we have privatized and personalize conversion and salvation that eliminates the necessary grace of Jesus' community, family, and spiritual community.
08/24/2015 by Phil Ware
Phil Ware continues his Saved at Sea series focusing on Peter's denials, his promises, his arrogance, his failure, and his restoration.
08/17/2015 by Phil Ware
Ann Voskamp looks at our ravaged world this summer and uses the image of a ravaged countryside to help us remember the power of sharing scars with the one who bears our sin in his scars.
08/09/2015 by Ann Voskamp
Rubel Shelly reminds us that being dour doesn't help any of us make disciples or friends.
08/07/2015 by Rubel Shelly
Rubel Shelly reminds us that we have to choose our words carefully because we don't have an unsend button for our mouth or a delete button to use after the words are spoken.
07/25/2015 by Rubel Shelly
Phil Ware compares Jesus to a keyhole through which we look at God and the closer we get to Jesus the more clearly we see God.
07/20/2015 by Phil Ware
Phil Ware begins a series called Saved at Sea which focuses on God's deliverance and truth found in the stories about the sea and rivers and water in the Bible.
06/08/2015 by Phil Ware
Phil Ware talks about the importance of taking time to remember Jesus and restore Jesus in the Lord's Supper.
05/24/2015 by Phil Ware
Ann Voskamp on going to Iraq and meeting with those who have lost so much to ISIS and she calls us to wake up and do something
05/22/2015 by Ann Voskamp
Phil Ware shares a much-anticipated doctor's visit that didn't go like he had anticipated and turned his life from calm into a storm of great concern.
05/17/2015 by Phil Ware
Phil Ware shares a third message from the book of Nehemiah, this one focusing on the great work of ordinary people given in lists of names in Nehemiah.
04/28/2015 by Phil Ware
Stacy Voss writes about her pain and a friend's pain at finding out that their husbands have been unfaithful and had repeated adulteries.
04/24/2015 by Stacy Voss
Phil Ware continues his series on Nehemiah and focuses on prayers, especially when prayers seem to go unanswered and we feel alone, frustrated, disappointed, discouraged, and ignored by God.
04/20/2015 by Phil Ware
Rubel Shelly writes about the current epidemic of racism that has shown up in recent days and has been confronted with the Black Lives Matter campaign.
04/18/2015 by Rubel Shelly