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Restoration

Summer is here. A time for rest and a time to watch what was planted in the Spring grow until harvest in the Fall. It is a time for restoration. It’s a time to stop and praise the Lord for all He has done. Summer is a time to pause. One of the verses in the lectionary...

Change Your Metaphors –Preaching Tip for 7 July 2019

Sometimes preaching needs to be about changing a bad metaphor. For example, if you want your church to be more missional, you don’t want them to think of themselves as a hospital for the ill and dying. You want them to think of themselves perhaps as a ship sailing...
Tribal Leadership

Tribal Leadership

Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization by Dave Logan and John King (2008) ISBN: 978-0-06-125130-6   –Review by Douglas Balzer   We have all heard that we are “the average of the five people we spend the most time with” or...
It’s A Love Story

It’s A Love Story

It’s a Love Story Lectionary 30 June 2019 4th Sunday After Pentecost 2 Kings 2:1-2 Psalm 16 Galatians 5:1, 13-25 Luke 9:51-62 Text to Life We celebrate the New Year in January, but a lot of big endings and new beginnings occur six months later. The month of June...