When I played basketball in college, our coach expected everyone on the team to come to the start of the season with a certain level of personal conditioning. For example, before anyone could attend his first practice in the fall, he had to demonstrate that he could run a mile in five and half minutes, […]
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Heart of the matter
When our girls were younger, The Jesus Storybook Bible was our bedtime reading on most nights. And the story they often chose was “The Girl No One Wanted,” about Jacob’s lesser-loved wife Leah and her long struggle to be valued. In this version of the story, Sally Lloyd-Jones uses modern language to describe the differences […]
There’s more than one way to grow your ministry
One of the top requests that churches in Illinois ask of our state convention is “Help us grow our church.” As a pastor myself, I want to offer some clarifying versions of that request. First, “Can you help us be the church in our context with the resources that we have?” Here in the metro […]
New signs of the times
Several years ago, I asked our graphic designer to help me with a project. There was such a proliferation of pronouns at the time that I wanted him to take all the new ones and make a word cloud of them. There were 15 on the list. I planned to use the cloud with a […]
John 3:16: The Gospel in a nutshell
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. (John 3:16 NKJV) There is an abundance to search out concerning this well-known verse. Martin Luther described it as “the Gospel in miniature.” If you were to stay in a hotel […]
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