As our church prepares for a desperately sad funeral on Wednesday, I thought I’d offer some different kind of reflections for this “Top Five Tuesday.” What are some things you simply shouldn’t say to families or individuals going through grief? Because the reality is the most people navigating those first shock-filled days after a death Read the full article…
Colossians 4:12 says this: Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you, that you may stand firm in all the will of God, mature and fully assured.What an interesting phrase: wrestling in prayer. We usually limit our notions of biblical wrestling Read the full article…
. . . and leave it on. And while you’re at it, bring some of your best questions about the text of the bible with you. You’ll see how those two elements — your cell phone and your questions — mesh together as we wind up the Text Message series with an experience called Txt2Txt. Read the full article…
If you’ve heard any of the messages in Text Message, you know I’m big on reading the bible out loud. That’s how most of the books in the bible are designed to be experienced: audibly and in community. Unfortunately, we read most of them silently and in isolation. Anyway, I have been trying to heed Read the full article…
Does a great series make a great church?I’ve been wondering that recently. We put a lot of work into the different Sunday series. We lay it out for titles that pop, visuals that capture, music that moves, and, hopefully, messages that connect. Some of the ones I feel best about over the last couple of Read the full article…
