I might step on some toes here. Thankfully, this is a problem I seem to hear less about as the big “C” Church moves away from American traditionalism and focuses more on relationship with God and others.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard, heard about, or been a part of a conversation where [...]

If your church is more than a few years old, and has a permanent building or rented storage space, you’ve got junk.
Why are you keeping that stuff? Probably because you will actually use it again. There may be a pack rat among you, one of those people who see something that very well should be [...]

When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus. This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him. And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen [...]

What a glorious day, for so many reasons. Like so many of you, I’ve had the cross on my mind today, and the sacrifice of our Savior on that instrument of torture and death.
Friday is also my usual day off, and would have been anyway since Good Friday is one of our church staff’s “official” [...]