by Stephen Holmes | Apr 1, 2015 | Opinion
I like good oratory and I teach public speaking regularly. I locate great examples from various professions and watch the best of them over and over, making notes on why they work. I review videos almost frame by frame with classes and seminars, pointing out this hand...
by Mark Tidsworth | Mar 31, 2015 | Opinion
How comfortable are we with our success? How competent do we perceive ourselves to be? What strange questions to ask, you might be thinking, given the Christian emphasis on humility. Isn’t it wrong to understand ourselves as effective, competent and successful...
by Robert Parham | Mar 31, 2015 | Opinion
A tidal wave of Republican presidential candidates is right behind Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who has announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States. The only likely candidate for the Democratic nomination – Hillary Clinton – is a tsunami all by...
by Hugh Hollowell | Mar 31, 2015 | Opinion
So much of what I call the “homeless industrial complex” revolves around power and control. If you look for it, you will find that it is everywhere. In the food pantry: “Stand here, in this line. Here, take this food, we picked out for you. You...
by Paul Beasley-Murray | Mar 31, 2015 | Opinion
Ministers are accountable to God for the exercise of their ministry (see 1 Corinthians 4:1-4; Galatians 1:10; Hebrews 13:17). Therefore, they have a responsibility to exercise their ministry in a way that is responsive to the spirit’s leading. But ministers are...
by Larry Eubanks | Mar 30, 2015 | Opinion
At each stage of creation in Genesis 1, God likes what he has created. He declares that the world is good. When it’s all done, he declares that the creation is very good. And then something goes very wrong. First, the humans decide that they don’t want to...
