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July 2010

"Successful" Church Planting

Sat, 2010-07-17 13:27 — Joseph Bayly

What does it mean to successfully plant a church? If you build a church of 200 people, is that success? If it becomes financially self-sustaining, is that success? If you have your own building, is that success? If you accomplish all three of those things, but it takes 10 years, is that failure?

Is it as simple as having the money to pay a full-time pastor? What if you don’t get big attendence - but you do provide children’s programs, Sunday School, a monthly community outreach event, a Christian sports league, a singles group, an addiction counseling program, an abuse hotline, a college bible study, and a support group for single moms? Is that enough to be considered successful?

Confession of a Custodian Part 2

Fri, 2010-07-16 13:18 — Nathan Alberson

Some men like work. They like their brow to be damp with sweat. I prefer a dryer, more sweat-free approach to my brow. Thus, the first lesson God taught me through custodial work was to actually do custodial work.

First the moral, then the story. The moral is be diligent in whatever work God gives you. Maybe you're getting your Ph.D in anthropology and God blessed you such that you've been athropologizing since you were a toddler. That's no excuse not to work unto the Lord at Arby's, if the Lord places you at Arby's.
 

Confessions of a Custodian

Tue, 2010-07-06 11:10 — Nathan Alberson

I'll censor it for you...

"It all started," Becky said, "in the 1930s or whenever the CENSORED it was when Bell made the telephone and Franklin invented electricity. Because before that you just stayed on the farm and raised the CENSORED chickens."
 
Becky was forty-five years old. She said she didn't like to look in mirrors, because she'd been pretty once, and life had bleached the beauty right out of her face. Years of smoking had given her a cackling laugh. She was laughing that laugh now. But tears trembled in her eyelids.

Blood Offerings

Thu, 2010-07-01 22:03 — M Scott Foster
Abortion stops a beating heart. You've seen the bumper stickers. And you know that it's true. But then, so do pro-choice feminists. Because, as we know from Romans 1, the unbeliever suppresses the truth, no matter how evident, in his pursuit of unrighteousness.   But some unbelievers are more honest than others. Take a recent article by a woman named Antonia Senior’s in The Times [London] entitled, “Yes, Abortion is Killing. But It’s the Lesser Evil.”