Darkness
Experiences of darkness are good and necessary teachers. They are not to be avoided, denied, run from, or explained away. Even if we don’t experience clinical or diagnosed depression, most …
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Why You Will Miss Churches When They Are Gone?
A recent article asked what America should do with all its empty churches. According to the article, six to ten thousand churches close each year, or about 22 a …
Why the Church Needs the Prodigal Heir to Return?
What if the father is a good leader whose gentleness and wisdom turns his people towards God? What if new influences cause his worker’s hearts and minds to doubt …
The Power of Questions
I love to go on long bike rides. Whether it be from Vancouver to Tijuana, Maine to New York or around the Big Island of Hawaii. In my opinion, traveling …
Practice Visio Divina
Image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of the Lagoon Nebula. April, 2018 The imagination works through suggestion, not description. Description is always direct and frequently closes off what it names. …
Edison Churches Book Review
Edison Churches is a must read for any person with a passion for innovating the church. As life continues to speed up and become more complicated, institutions are asked to …
The Entrepreneurial Church
Sacred Space: The Entrepreneurial Church – Brandon Napoli What would your community look like without churches? Without entrepreneurship? Between 4,000 and 7,000 churches close their doors every year. There has …
The Lord’s Prayer for Business Leaders.
Identity: Our Father in Heaven hallow be your name Vision: Your Kingdom come Mission: Your will be done Goals: On Earth like it is in heaven Tactics: Give us today our daily bread …
Being a Neighbor: Building an Inn
On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” “What is written in the Law?” he …
