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If you look over the blog I wrote about my angst-producing experience with churches, you'll see that Debbie, a blog reader and a mom of an AIM partici...
The job of pastor is hard enough. Ephesians 4 describes the role of pastor in the context of four other roles so that he can shoulder the weight of le...
Ron Walborn is a friend. He comes to AIM and teaches our missionaries how to hear the voice of the Lord and engage other cultures with the t...
Homogeneity is a problem in the church. It's a term that means that everybody in a group is pretty much the same. It's a problem because (as explor...
This word - community - that we throw around (sometimes cavalierly) is, in practice, pretty tough. Part of what Jesus was teaching his twelve disci...
We live in the wealthiest society the world has ever known, a country where the poorest among us has life-enhancing amenities that kings only dreamed ...
Last week my old friend Damon Ghee made a special effort to see Karen and I after we'd not seen one another for a couple of years. He dr...
The following from Buechner compares A.A. to the church. The church would look a lot more attractive if it learned a few things from A.A. Alcoholics ...
For those who have become cynical about the church, it’s important to distinguish between the body of Christ as described in the Bible and the busin...
A quote from the book, *Why Men Hate Going To Church*: "One New Year's Eve I asked my pastor a very straightforward question: 'How many adults came...
