Question: Our church needs an additional building, but I don’t think there’s adequate financial support for it. What would you do? Answer: If financial constraints are keeping you from moving toward a new building plan, think about whether you could double your space in the same building by adding a second Sunday school and/or worship […]
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Pastor’s priority
Read: Acts 6:4 (ESV) “But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” There are 168 hours in a week, and most weeks they seem to go by way too fast. Each week has a variety of good things you can do to fill those hours: community meetings, phone calls, […]
My annual reckoning
Last month, I hoped my birthday would pass with little notice. It’s not that I don’t enjoy my birthdays. I used to anticipate them, but they just don’t hold the same level of excitement. They make me count and remind me that I am, to some people, an old person. I’m learning that too many […]
LifeWay stores: losing a trusted source
The announcement that LifeWay Christian Resources will close its brick-and-mortar stores by the end of the year dismayed many Southern Baptists who have long shopped the shelves for books, music, and Lord’s Supper wafers. The reaction was predictable—it’s sad to lose a trusted source of information and resources. What some seem to be missing even […]
Lessons from unexpected guests
During the years when our sons were younger and still at home, one of them asked me one evening, “Dad, what do you do all day?” No doubt I was distracted with whatever work I was doing at the time, and I glibly replied, “I attend meetings, talk on the phone, solve problems, and write […]
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