By Mark Taylor, Publisher “The temporary becomes permanent.” Dale McCann, senior minister at the first church I served full-time, repeated this proverb whenever I was tempted to slap something together till we could do it right later. Short-Term Fixes Dale was observing a tendency of human nature and long experience working with the […]
By Sam E. Stone Paul’s first letter to the Corinthian church contained many things that were difficult for the people to hear and to heed. One issue involved a man who had a sexual relationship with his father’s wife (1 Corinthians 5:1). The apostle directed the church to separate from him (5:2, 11-13). The […]
By Betty B. Gray Corrie ten Boom is one of the characters that I love to portray in the Living Drama Ministry. During World War II, Corrie and her sister Betsy were thrown into a Nazi concentration camp. Their crime was hiding Jews in their home. The ten Booms were godly people who saw […]
By Christy Barritt Minister Refused Surgery U.S. minister Saeed Abedini was denied a much needed surgery. The Iranian-born American has been in an Iranian prison since he was arrested in July 2012 while working on an orphanage project in the country. He was accused of endangering national security and sentenced to eight years in […]
By T. R. Robertson I’ve decided to stop being the church curmudgeon. In my teens and 20s I was an idealist through and through. Older people told me this would wear off eventually. It didn’t. Instead it was gradually transformed into cynicism as my hopes dimmed of seeing my ideals become reality. Time after […]
