
How to respond to 'super spiritual' people
What do we do with those who seem to be super spiritual The ones who seem to pray more, praise louder, get more excited about God than we do

What do we do with those who seem to be super spiritual The ones who seem to pray more, praise louder, get more excited about God than we do

There is no peace until you are right with God, which leads me to the first and most important point:

It’s a new way to pastor, and that means a new kind of pastoral stress.

In the disorienting last few days, it feels our society is reading Exodus 32 backward. We’ve started with a plague, moved to inappropriate revelry, and now seek to worship a statue of a cow.

After worship on Sunday, March 15, our church family discussed what we would do next. For more than three years we had had Sunday lunch together, but there was a sense this would be the last time for a while. After a few days of prayerful consideration we decided to try a “drive-in” worship service. Everyone would remain in their vehicles on the church parking lot while I led worship and preached from the front steps.

Atheists and skeptics have consistently asserted that the Bible is nothing more than a collectivized set of fairy tales whose historical validity is on par with Aesop s fables But is this the case

I’m not sure why my water bottle sticker prompts questions. Perhaps it’s the question that draws them in. They’ve heard the phrase “what would Jesus do” many times, but "what would Dolly do?" is a new question for them to ponder.

It seems more like a fright and flight reaction. But now it is time for a fight reaction!

All of you old-timers like me who grew up in Baptist, Methodist, or other “evangelical” churches know the name Fanny Crosby, the blind woman who wrote more gospel songs/hymns than anyone else in history. She was born 200 years ago this month.

I will summarize for you what I have learned over the past few days from interacting with the people I trust It boils down to three scenarios