I started listening to immigrants, my views changed to a more collective understanding of what’s happening to us—humans all made in the image of God.
The Women’s Issue
Churches have followed the few commands that silence women, but ignored the material that shows God intends for women to have complete involvement in every aspect of church life.
Who Will Show the Children?
What will spread the love of Jesus more effectively than a sermon, is a hug, validation, a knowing that someone has the time for you.
Is There Power in the Pulpit?
It was preaching that drew Christians out to fields for the revivals of the Great Awakenings, and it is preachers today who continue to impact the minds of congregants.
Hospitality Ministry: As Old as Pentecost
There are many reasons for church attendance most are there because the language the world is speaking is not making sense to them.
Litany of Hope
May the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
be blessed!
He is the compassionate Father and God
of all comfort.
Relentlessly Haunted
The truth of the matter is that God is always with me. If I allow that truth to shape and form me then my life will never be the same.
My Three-in-One New Year's Resolution
One thing: Jesus. Three things to do: forget the past, focus on heaven, and press on till you get there.
Moralizing Food Is Hurting The Church
God created us and said "this is good." Yet, we all feel so bad. If you are fat or have fat you have failed.
Top 5 CHARIS Posts in 2017
I'm pleased to look back on 2017 and share with you these most-read posts last year.
Living Creatively in a Destructive World
The world seems to be tearing itself apart these days, and even the smallest act of creativity is needed. Good luck out there.
Shifting Focus (Part 2)
In our desire to avoid pain, we essentially create pain for others. It’s a dreadfully powerful cycle and we are scarily and impressively loyal to it.
How to Keep Your Rural Minister through the Harvest
The absence of adequate and regular field support makes for casualties and AWOLS on the spiritual battlefield of rural missions.
The Haze of Love
Our biggest strength is that we trudge about in a world filled with darkness and death and decay and desperately try to love.
A Litany for Those in Pain
O Jesus, man of sorrows and suffering, hear me.
From the desire of being known,
deliver me, Jesus.
Boxing Day Sermon
So, the question before us on Dec. 26 (or on any other day) is, “What does Immanuel (God with us) mean today?”
When God Shows up for Christmas
The story of Jesus entering into the world is a story of God disrupting the lives and plans of those God chose.
Living Stones: Recognizing the DNA of Your Church
A living and missionally-focused congregation must attend to all of its being – relational and programmatic. Ignoring one dimension or the other will diminish the whole!
A Light in the Darkness
All of them need a little light in the midst of the darkness. I want nothing more than to bring a little light into the darkness.
A Tale of Two Trees
Christmas is when we recall that the King was born, and reigns forever more, and that the arrival of Christ signaled the expiration date on all other kingdoms.