by Mark Tidsworth | Nov 4, 2013 | Opinion
Navigating the whitewater of change seems to be the number-one challenge of our times. Trying to convince individuals, families, businesses and congregations that change is happening is like trying to convince the sun it is yellow. Some things are so obvious they are...
by Greg DeLoach | Nov 4, 2013 | Opinion
A few nights ago, I was leaving the church rather late – about 8:30 p.m. or so. It had been a long day. I was tired and ready to get home to stare blankly at the television and think of nothing for a few minutes before heading to bed and starting all over again the...
by Robert Parham | Nov 4, 2013 | Opinion
Warren Buffet reportedly coined the term “skin in the game,” by which he meant that corporate executives showed their confidence in their company to outside investors if they had stock in it. If they had nothing to lose, could one really trust what they...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 2, 2013 | Opinion
On Hallowe’en night I was buying gas near Aiken, South Carolina, and was deeply engrossed in washing my windshield when my peripheral vision caught a white mini-van coasting up to the adjoining pump. My attention was focused on a couple of stubborn bug streaks...
by Seth Vopat | Nov 1, 2013 | Opinion
I sat in the audience mesmerized, listening to the speaker intently. About halfway through his talk, I began wondering if I had to walk a mile in his shoes, would I have persevered? Would I have stuck with it, resulting in the opportunity to share an incredible...
by Griff Martin | Nov 1, 2013 | Opinion
A Christian funeral can be an act of beauty or a lesson in bad theology. It seems to be at funerals where we offer some of our cheapest theology in an effort to ease some temporary pain. Yet these words often have long lasting and damaging effects in regard to our...
