by Nick Megoran | Mar 4, 2014 | Opinion
Horrifying stories about child abusers are never far from the news. The concern that strangers will abduct or otherwise abuse vulnerable children is one of the distinguishing fears of modern life. For older children, fear of abduction has taken on a sinister new...
by Dennis Bickers | Mar 4, 2014 | Opinion
I have officially coached several bivocational ministers and worked with dozens of others over the past few years. At some point in those coaching relationships, the problem of time has always come up. I have yet to meet a bivocational minister who doesn’t...
by Richard Wilson | Mar 3, 2014 | Opinion
I watched and listened as a visiting missionary stood in front of more than 100 Liberian pastors during a question-and-answer session at the end of a three-day conference for rural pastors at Ricks Institute in Liberia. After a series of questions about the...
by Robert Parham | Mar 3, 2014 | Opinion
Christian aspirations for the movie “Son of God” differ strikingly from the Christian expectations for “The Passion of the Christ” 10 years ago. Hopes for the movie today are far more realistic – levelheaded, down-to-earth. Mel Gibson’s...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 28, 2014 | Opinion
Sometimes, less can be more. Recently I was given the challenge of writing a meditation that speaks to the church as a good gift of God for which we should be thankful. In 50-90 words. That’s about three tweets’ worth. How to describe something as...
by Sam Chaise | Feb 28, 2014 | Opinion
Christmas ended six weeks ago and Lent starts Wednesday. We are currently in Epiphany, the season of the church year in which we journey with Jesus through the three years of public ministry he had on the earth. Some traditions call this “Ordinary Time”...
