One of the most disorienting realities of life is the way God brings good out of circumstances that appear anything but. Gets me nearly every time.
Ministry for Such a Time as This
Our people, our ministries and our families have specific needs, but sometimes we don’t do a great job at identifying and ministering to those needs. So what can we do about it?
Acedia and Not Me (Please!)
One of the most disorienting realities of life is the way God brings good out of circumstances that appear anything but. Gets me nearly every time.
Prayer in the Apostolic Church: Acts 12
The life of the apostle Peter was preserved against all odds, and once again the church witnessed the power found in prayer.
Lowering the Wing: Humility as a Competency in Spiritual Care
I had not yet fully internalized just how beautifully diverse Muslims in the United States truly are, and how this immense diversity serves as a rich opportunity for a chaplain’s clinical growth.
Cultural Components of Grieving in Latino Populations
Latino cultural norms often encourage open emotional expression. Chaplains can support families by offering calm presence, providing space to openly grieve, and validating these expressions.
African Americans and Spiritual Care
The realities of history mean that, when a chaplain enters the African American patient’s room, there is often an unspoken wall already standing—not built from disrespect, but from a lack of trust.
Habakkuk: Is a Prophet’s Message Bad News or Good News?
When I’m struggling with what seem to be God’s ideas, like Habakkuk did, God’s faithful response is always good news, even if it may not look like it at the time.
The Gospel According to Moses in Seven Verbs
We have found talking about these seven verbs from Exodus to be a very quick way to introduce who God is and how He matters in someone’s life.
Cultivating Intergenerational Friendship
Are our communities of faith creating spaces where intergenerational friendship might begin to blossom and bloom?
Learning to Live with the Once-Unseen
The closer we come to Christ, the more honestly we see ourselves. But we also discover that God’s grace always exceeds what has been revealed.
A Family Crossroads: When Faith and Sports Collide
We want our kids to have opportunities to grow in extracurricular activities and to enjoy them, while also developing and maintaining a healthy faith.
Siburt Institute Values – and You!
The Siburt Institute’s values emerge from our commitment to faithfully embody the partnership in Jesus’s ministry to the Father by the Holy Spirit for the sake of the church’s witness to the world.
Fostering Collaborative Partnerships between Large and Small Churches
Churches need one another. Our shared goal should be to help each other become as effective as possible for the Kingdom.
Saul of Tarsus and His Preaching of the Risen Christ, Acts 9:1–19
To preach the resurrection of Jesus is to reaffirm our own resurrection and our own hope of life eternal.
A World Divided, a Church United
The Church is called to be the people united through the Spirit to bring about unity, peace, and reconciliation in a divided world.
Striking Rocks: Losing Sight of God (Repost)
We need to steer away from the temptation to make what we do about ourselves and to try to make God look better. We simply need to be faithful to our call to serve God.
Companions on the Journey: 7 Important Women from Church History
We need help and support, and that support can come from our brothers and sisters who are no longer living, by means of their writings and their example.
The Unsung Heroes, Acts 11:19-20
These unsung heroes followed in the steps of Christ and in so doing, kept the flame of the Gospel burning. May God send us more leaders like them.
Praying for the Lost
If you pray for the lost, God will answer. He will send you people, and you will share Jesus. God will give the increase, more than you can ask or imagine.