by Matt Sapp | Aug 19, 2015 | Opinion
I attended a few weeks ago Willow Creek’s Global Leadership Summit at Wieuca Road Baptist Church, a satellite host site for the summit in Atlanta. The unofficial motto of the summit is Bill Hybel’s repeated reminder that “everyone wins when a leader...
by Robert Parham | Aug 19, 2015 | Opinion
Donald Trump’s headline-grabbing agenda on immigration is unbiblical and unworkable. The biblical witness is abundantly clear. We are to treat the immigrant with kindness and justice. For example, Deuteronomy 10:18-19 says that God “loves immigrants,...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Aug 18, 2015 | Opinion
The hope of new life, new possibilities, new hope, new being made possible through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus is the central message of Christianity. Paul describes the transformation that Christian faith brings in 2 Corinthians 5:17, “So if...
by Colin Harris | Aug 18, 2015 | Opinion
The concept of “messiah” weaves its way through the biblical narrative and Christian theology in ways that have made it central to the faith pilgrimage. Throughout the history of covenant faith, God’s liberating and redemptive work is often...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 17, 2015 | Opinion
I spend a fair amount of time in the recliner these days, keeping my feet up and either ice or heat on my hip, whichever seems to promise relief at the time (see the previous blog if you’re wondering why). While reared back and looking through pictures on my...
by Dennis Bickers | Aug 17, 2015 | Opinion
At every workshop I lead, someone will ask how he or she can lead change in their church when most of the people are content with the way things are. At the most, they confess, there are only a handful of people who want to see their church do more. I always respond...
