By Garth Whewell I love ministering in a small church. I feel blessed to have been given this opportunity by God. Christ’s church is one big family, meeting in many different church houses around the globe. The church house in which our little part of that family meets is in a rural area of […]
By Dan Lentz 1. If you had the time and energy to do it, what new endeavor would you like to start? Read Ephesians 4:1-16. 2. Based on your temperament, do you find it easy or challenging to “Be completely humble and gentle” and to “be patient, bearing with one another in […]
By David Faust Do you know how it feels to be down and out? Have you ever fallen into an emotional pit? Some of faith’s heroes lived in caves and holes in the ground (Hebrews 11:38). Jeremiah literally spent time in a pit, lowered into a muddy cistern (Jeremiah 38:6). Even worse, Daniel’s pit […]
By Ava Pennington “I don’t want to go.” Nan pursed her lips in a pout. “You’ll have a good time.” “Do I have to?” She looked at me with pleading eyes. I sighed. “Just try it.” It was a classic “first day of school” conversation—an annual ritual for parents and children all over the […]
By Jacqueline J. Holness Christmas is still the most wonderful time of the year—in spite of the fact that culturally it seems more and more Americans want to separate Christ from Christmas. To that end, I have created a Top Seven list of ways Christians can stake our claim on Christmas. 1. Insist […]
