Signs of the Struggling Church

From Sam Rainer @ Church Forward
Over 90% of churches are declining or growing less than the community around them. The national trends are not good. Before church leaders surrender to frustration and church members yield to apathy, our composite research shows there are signs along the way that suggest a church is becoming unhealthy. The [...]

Lost and Found

Ihave been reading Ed Stetzer’s new book “Lost and Found”. You can read more reviews about this book at Ed’s site.
One of the things I love most about Ed’s writing (books, blogs, tweets,etc) is that he does so commonly and directly. I am amazed of his multi-tasking abilities and am glad that I don’t have his schedule.
In his [...]

Tunes For Tuesday

And Just For Fun…

Prayer for Obama

President-elect Barack Obama will be sworn in today. My prayer for him is that he will be the best president that our country has had so far. I pray for his safety, I pray for his leadership and I pray that God will use him during his time here on earth.
When he is sworn in, [...]

You’ve Come A Long Way Baby!

You may never have heard of E. A. Adeboye, but the pastor of The Redeemed Christian Church of God is one of the most successful preachers in the world. He boasts that his church has outposts in 110 countries. He has 14,000 branches—claiming 5 million members—in his home country of Nigeria alone. There are 360 [...]

Happy Holidays

A group of atheists and agnostics has placed a sign at the Capitol building that says, in part: “Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.”
The sign, sponsored by the Madison, Wisc.-based Freedom From Religion Foundation, is in part a reaction to a Nativity scene put up in the Capitol by [...]

Tunes for Tuesday

Here’s a video of Need To Breathe. These guys are awesome live, unfortunately their youtube videos are not.

This one is from Brandon Heath. There are many people that can relate to these lyrics and there are even more who hopefully one day will be able to relate to them.
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Role Models For Who?

If it’s the sign of the times, then I’m really feeling old. I was doing some “culture research” this past week on MTV and caught a glimpse of this movie trailer. Needless to say, I am no longer disgusted, angry, or  offended by the stupid, banal, and immature movies and television shows [...]

Election Results Demand Response

Where are the falling pieces of sky? Where is that hand basket? What will we do now?
Time for most evangelicals to pick their jaws up from the floor and back up what they say they believe.
Obama has won the election, and will be our 44th president. Praise God! Not because I voted for him, because I didn’t, [...]

WWJD?

What would Jesus do? Certainly not this:

When will “we” learn that this speaks against us Christians more than it changes the minds of those who are not like-minded.