I’d like to look at homosexuality today from the standpoint of the local church after looking at it from a political standpoint yesterday (post HERE). A couple weeks ago I wrote a post on how Christians have been known to treat gays and lesbians and it got a pretty wide response. I looked at it…
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Do You Dress Up For Church?
You can subscribe to my posts HERE. I think you can put most church’s clothing attire into one of two categories. The business casual or professional crowd is probably a bit older or maybe from the South, the casual crowd is probably younger or from the west coast. I’ve been going to church my whole…
Pulpit Endorsement: ADF and the Pulpit Initiative
I had another post planned for today, but after reading about this story from all over the place today I have decided to chime in. On Sunday September 28th, 2008 (2 days ago), 33 pastors from around the country endorsed one Presidential candidate or the other during their message or sermon during a Sunday morning…
Superficial, Awkward, or Community?
Most churches begin a Sunday morning service with some sort of congregational greeting. They tell you to say hi to a few people around you. Sometimes they have you answer a question with your neighbor as well. Well this weekend I am leading worship music (we’ve talked about this before) at my church (Sunset). So…
Ministry Burnout
I read Anne Jackson’s blog almost everyday. She is one of those “big-time” bloggers and she has a book coming out next February called Mad Church Disease. The book is basically about the disease of church leaders getting burned out. Talk to anyone in ministry and they know burnout is an issue to be dealt…
Praying for Those Hurting: Tennessee Church Shooting
Today we started a 3 week series on hurt, pain, sorrow, etc…why is life so hard? It was an awesome day at church. One of those days when you are so thankful for what you do. I came home at 2:30 only to read about a church in Tennessee that is dealing with indescribable amounts…