Anyone at all who are acquainted with me realizes that when I do anything, I go all in or not at all.   When our church decided to launch...

Since my first post went viral on, “Have Sunday Schools Lost their Missional focus?”  My readers have been clamoring for the follow-up...

One of the great questions the church is asking today is, “Can Sunday school programs live again?”  What is driving this inquiry is...

Missional Communities Can Connect Us With Our Unconnected Neighbors Missional communities continue to be an instrument by which we can...

Dear Millennials, This is the Church writing to you. We have been trying to reach you for decades, although admittedly with little to no...

Life is about transitions.  Whether that transition is from diapers to walking, from High School to college, or more life altering from...

“Busyness…can be a way to avoid God, the meaning of life, and life itself.” -Sidney Macaulay In a Washington Post column by Megan...

If you are like me you have heard the popular song but never stopped to ponder the lyrics of the song.  You get caught up in the haunting...

When a pastor receives a call to a congregation, the deliberation process begins. It is an exciting, yet stressful time for the pastor,...

Top Ten Reasons to Get Involved in Kingdom Work When you stay home, you get too many telemarketing calls. Your family could use a break...

It was the winter of 1993. After completing what felt like an eternity of higher education part of the transitioning process from learned...

Sixty-five million people were displaced from their homes by conflict and disaster in 2016. It’s not just a crisis; it’s a test of who we...

For Guidance in the Pastoral Call Process By Phil Bandy Samuel 16:6-13- Monday When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab and thought, “Surely...

This story appeared in the popular series “Chicken Soup for the Soul.Many years ago, when I worked as a volunteer at Stanford Hospital, I...

You prepare a table before me (Ps 23:5) The psalmist, David shifts his attention for protection from the valley of death in verse 4 to...

“There is beauty all around us, and the light finds us when we realize, we are all part of that beauty and worth the cherishing. If we...

“He will turn the hearts of fathers back to their children, and he will turn the disobedient to righteous patterns of thinking.” Luke...

There is much debate today regarding who Jesus gave the Great Commission to that is found in Matthew 28. The discussion in my tribe...

Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. The Hebrew word here translated “rod” has a long history. Its meanings include rod, scepter,...

He (Jesus)will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I...