The church and its culture of tipping …
You’ve probably read the many stories of interviews from servers in restaurants who say Christians are the worst tippers (the photo above is a REAL example). I’ve […]
11
Jul
2014
Blog Tag
Giving
08
Jul
2014
What’s the big deal about giving?
Why is it that at least once a year a pastor needs to preach on giving, and that’s not often enough? What is the big deal about […]
15
Nov
2013
You don’t have to sneak out at night to do this …
Nearly lost to the church in our day is the biblical concept of taking up someone else’s burden: “Share each other’s burdens, and in this way obey […]
19
Jun
2013
Nothing left over …
Why does the church seem to be so impotent in our culture? Perhaps one reason is similar to the problem folklore tells us Mark Twain occasionally suffered […]
14
Jan
2013
When a little is a lot …
A story is told of a king who planned to host a great feast and invited all his servants throughout his kingdom. The king said he would […]
09
Jan
2013
A critical measure …
Take a mental trip … … something has happened and you find yourself alone on a remote island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. What do […]
09
Dec
2012
How to make stone soup …
You might be familiar with Aesop’s fables, but you may not have heard this story credited to the fifth century story teller … Long ago three soldiers, […]
23
Jul
2012
Jesus wants you to be an entrepreneur?
You have only 30 minutes for lunch. You pop the frozen dinner you brought to work into the microwave in the breakroom … and become impatient as […]
03
Jun
2012
Outsourcing the Way …
One of the toughest challenges church leaders have is that of imploring people to actually live out what they claim they believe. We work hard at discipling […]
04
Sep
2011
You can’t be serious!
Three of your friends are blindfolded. You’re brought in, but they don’t know you’re there, they only know someone has come in, and they have to identify […]