This article is from about a year and a half ago over at Mark Battersons blog.  I am finally getting around to sharing it.  Mark has great insight and appreciate his ministry in Washington D.C.  Here is the article.
Church Steeples

There was a time, just a few centuries ago, when nautical maps of Europe had legends that [...]

“The health and life of the church rests in the spiritual examples the elders model. The problem in the church today is not the absence of innovative programs, financial giving, or dynamic preachers and teachers. The problem is in the leadership team.” - Found on the internet a few years ago.

So it makes me wonder. Through the experiences that I have had at church why restoration, isn’t really restoration.  I have seen two pastors, I personally know, fail morally in the positions they held, one in particular was in the very church that I was attending.  Why is it that we as believers never reached [...]

Hey all.
I’ve seen this done on other blogs and wanted to do it here.  I am spending Monday and Tuesday in some concentrated prayer times through out the days, and wanted to pray for you guys and gals who read my blog…whoever you might be.  Please don’t be shy and not respond.  Be anonymous if [...]

 
 
Don’t need to say much about this one.  
 
(HT: nakedpastor)

I love this realistic picture Ronald Rolheiser paints of the church.
To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murders, adulterers, and hypocrites of every description.  It also, at the same time, identifies you with saints and the finest persons of heroic soul within every time, country, race, and gender. To [...]

Tonight at Gravity Bookstore, Ross King and traveling troupe played a show of select songs that Ross has written. This has been the second time seeing Ross live in the past year and I am just amazed with the songs this guy writes, his presentation and story behind each song. This guy is [...]

Tonight while I was getting a shower I was thinking about this again.  You see I have been thinking about this for a little while now.  Its been something I have been dealing with and not sure how to deal with it.  I think here in the U.S. we look on forgiveness as a bad [...]

How often do we think what we do, God’s got to pay us back? Like He’s owed us something in the first place. I and I think other’s often think this. If we’d just read the Bible a little more, if we would hand out one more track, if we would [...]