You get up in the morning and turn on your computer, iPad, or television. The waves of hurt and pain roll in — wars, famine, political polarization, racism, abuse, and people just struggling to make …
Air Freshener For The Bathroom
“Churches don’t understand that if they just put some air freshener in the bathroom, people would feel more welcome.” These are words from a church consultant. Is he right? What are people telling us about …
Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
What do you love? What does your congregation love? These are essential questions to dig into because St. Augustine states, “Wherever I am carried, my love is carrying me.” Putting it another way, our congregations …
Church Planting in the Secular West
Stephan Paas’ book is a wonderful crossover volume that speaks about church planting but connects deeply with church renewal. In Church Planting in the Secular West he helps us understand the church of the ages …
Growing the Church in the Power of the Holy Spirit
We would all like to see our churches grow. The Holy Spirit is a crucial aspect to any growth in our congregations. The Holy Spirit is still a very mysterious person of the Trinity to …
No Place for Truth or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology?
No Place for Truth: Or, Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology? is the first of David F. Wells’ books on the shift in Evangelicalism in the light of modern and postmodern thought (other books include God in …
