Month: February 2025

Disciple Making Reminders

As one year closes and another opens, I generally take some time to reflect on a number of areas of life and ministry. This year, one of the topics that has been most on my mind is disciple making. In the course of prayer, contemplation, and reading, I stumbled back upon a now ten-year-old document…
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The Body of Christ

One of the tragic losses for someone who claims the Name of Christ but who willfully doesn’t go to church is the loss of community in the Body of Christ. I get it that church life can be messy — it’s been that way since the beginning!  Ananias and Sapphire in Acts 5 apparently wanted to be recognized as…
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Best Practices for Receiving Charitable Contributions

During January, I received several questions related to church giving. Even though most churches have most likely signed, sealed, and delivered 2024 giving statements I thought it might still be helpful to publish some of these questions while they are fresh on the mind, and since many of these issues will surface throughout the year…
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