My wife and I, along with our three boys, moved to Mascoutah in 2014, believing that the Lord had called us to start a church in a small southern Illinois town. I had not been introduced to the process of church planting yet. All I had was a burden for the lost and a yearning […]
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Emerging from a year-long crisis
Do we all have PTSD? I heard someone ask that question recently. Has COVID caused its own kind of post-traumatic stress disorder for us all? Is this stress behind our other health crises and depression and rising street violence? Getting my second vaccination and emerging from my house after a year, I couldn’t believe the […]
The rest of the hike
One of the more important things I’ve learned during years of mountain climbing is that even when you’ve reached the summit, the hike is not over. What goes up truly must come down. And though the ascent can be tough, the second half of a hike is often challenging in its own ways. For example, […]
After the ‘three-year pandemic’
The stories we hear right now are anecdotal: churches here and there witnessing something of a revival after months of closure and privation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Some pundits warned that it may take years for all the regulars to return to church services, if they ever do. But more recent polls show people […]
Let me ask one question
I left the deacons meeting one proud pastor. It had been a tiring Sunday evening filled with meetings and preaching. However, I went home greatly encouraged by how God was at work using our leaders. In our meeting, five deacons told stories about how they had shared the gospel with someone during the past month. […]
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