Distraction “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.” — Winston Churchill Read more
Spirit-Filled Joy Generates Revival Since “the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace ...” (Gal. 5:22), joy is both an indicator and a vindicator of genuine revival and reformation. Read more
Ten Free Ways to Appreciate Your Pastor ... Without Making It Awkward Next month is the 20th annual Pastor Appreciation Month. Lists, like this one, show up this time of year to guilt generous parishioners into forking over vacations, cars and new wardrobes to their pastors in order to affirm their calling. Read more
I'm Offended, Part 1 My wife recently gave birth to our third child, and one of the many questions we have as we watch her grow is what her personality will be like. Both our eldest and our newly crowned middle child are distinct in approaches to life — yet there is o... Read more
Ditches On an idyllic late spring afternoon, a friend and I cruised a curving country road in his convertible. These were the halcyon days of fuel prices, so the throaty throb of the big V-8 gulping gallons of gas dampened our enthusiasm not one iota. Col... Read more
Spiritual AIDS “Pastor!” It was Sonja. She had a homosexual twin brother who had contracted AIDS in the bowels of San Francisco. Life was fading fast, and Jim wanted to come home to his churchgoing sister’s family so he could die in peace. Sonja wondered if I wo... Read more
Our Core Value Adventist education is a core value of the Seventh-day-Adventist Church. From our very beginnings, we have recognized that education must be key in our strategy to minister to the whole person: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Th... Read more
Why Children Leave the Church, Part 2 Why do children grow up Seventh-day Adventists and then leave the church? Last month we talked about how parents shouldn’t automatically blame themselves if they lose their kids to the world, basically because everybody gets to choose God for them... Read more
