Ideas are like used cars. They may be new to you, but generally they have already been thought of by someone else. I heard an idea this last week that was new to me. It brought me encouragement. It might bring the same to you. Rebecca works in our office for Lutheran Special Education Ministries. This is an excellent ministry […]
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” So said Juliet pining over Romeo. You don’t have to know Shakespeare to know that line. A thing is what a thing is regardless the name. That’s not disconnected from this. Dallas Willard wrote in Renovation of the Heart, “Arrogance of doctrine or arrogance of tradition is still arrogance. It […]
A lot of churches are dying. That’s true in this denomination and that one. Lots of them. Lots of churches are dying in lots of denominations. You may be a member of one of them; everyone just holding on until the last member goes to glory. Is your church dying? I hope so. But not that way. Not in the […]