by Mark Tidsworth | Apr 29, 2013 | Opinion
Themes show up in the oddest places sometimes. I’m thinking about three congregations in which Pinnacle Leadership Associates has done conflict management consulting – Baptist, Lutheran and Presbyterian. Conflicts in these three churches were related to...
by Greg Hunt | Apr 29, 2013 | Opinion
A gunman slaughters innocents at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Bombs rip through the crowd at the Boston Marathon. A chemical plant explosion destroys homes and lives in West, Texas. Every day seems to bring news of a devastating disruption in some...
by Colin Harris | Apr 29, 2013 | Opinion
For a nation whose Constitution begins with the words, “We the people,” we seem to have an interesting pattern to the exercise and management of our “we-ness.” I hope it is not cynical to notice an all-too-recurring cycle expressed most...
by Taylor Johnson | Apr 26, 2013 | Opinion
In my short career, I’ve come across a lot of loaded words, but the word worship has been one of the most difficult to define. Everyone is looking for a church that really worships, that really knows how to praise God. We don’t know exactly what worship...
by Larry Greenfield | Apr 26, 2013 | Opinion
Good thing I didn’t have to wait for congressional action and a leader’s signature to make me a legitimate member of the nation of Jesus. Fortunately, that all got taken care of a couple of millennia ago when Peter was in Joppa and then Jerusalem (Acts...
by Arthur Brown | Apr 26, 2013 | Opinion
Sitting on the fence is not always the most comfortable place to be. In trying to avoid aligning yourself with a particular group, belief or political party, it is often easy to alienate yourself from all parties in the debate, thus potentially becoming irrelevant. I...
