A church that can successfully align its ministries toward the singular purpose of furthering its Great Commission-saturated mission is like our front porch, providing the structure that ministries need to both grow and blossom.
A few months ago, we conducted “The Great Toy Purge.” Parents, you know what I’m talking about. We brought our kids’ excessive level of toys down to a more manageable level. We threw out the toys that were broken or had missing pieces.
Howard County, MD, has a popular bumper sticker that says “Choose Civility.” It is a great bumper sticker for a county, a visual reminder that residents should be polite and get along, especially while on the road.
November 3, 2020, is a significant date in the United States of America. All 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, 35 of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate, and the position of president of the United States will be on the ballot.
Do you know how diamonds form? Virtually all of the glittering gems that catch your eye in a jewelry store have come from deep within the earth, a hundred miles or more beneath your feet.
I remember brainstorming back in early May with my youth ministry team about what to do for our high school graduates. How could we best approximate what we normally did for our grads?