by Charlie Bing | Oct 5, 2017 | Church and Ministry, Grace
“Don’t judge me!” In our age of tolerance, this statement has become a mantra used to stifle moral pronouncements and avoid responsibility for behavior. Some Christians might even say this to mean, “Don’t tell me how to live; I’m...
by admin | May 2, 2014 | Church and Ministry, Communication, Culture, Evangelism, Missions, Music
by Arnfield Cudal – I write this letter on the day after Easter Sunday, sitting on row 57 of the seemingly endless flight to Bangkok, Thailand. The cumulative 40-hour flight time indicates to me that from Palm Beach, Florida, we are on opposites sides of the globe....
by admin | Feb 3, 2014 | Church and Ministry, Music
by Arnfield P. Cudal – Recent religious trends among Millennials — today’s youth who have come of age at the turn of the century — highlight yet another self-perpetuating cycle in the quest for spirituality. A Pew Research Center survey reports that only...
by admin | Jan 23, 2014 | Bible Exegesis/Exposition, Church and Ministry
by Christopher Cone – Every week tens of thousands of pastors give messages to millions of people. And then they do it again the next week. And the next. And the next. The cycle repeats as it has year after year after year. But why? How many of these pastors are...
by Matt Hagemeier | Nov 20, 2013 | Bible Exegesis/Exposition, Church and Ministry, Leadership
by Daniel Goepfrich – The noun “pastor” is found in only one place in the entire New Testament, so to find out what a pastor does, that seems like a good place to start. It was he who gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, and some...
by Daniel Thomas | Nov 11, 2013 | Church and Ministry, Music
by Arnfield P. Cudal – Because psalm-singing was not a tradition in the evangelical church I grew up in, my encounter with singing the Psalms seemed like a novelty at first, but as appreciation and familiarity in singing the Psalms grew, it has come to be one of the...