Question: There’s change coming to our church, and while it doesn’t affect me directly, I find I’m not handling it well. Do you have any spiritual advice? Answer: The key to accepting change is often to put aside our own preferences and focus on the real reason for the change. Churches often make changes to […]
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‘Don’t do nothing’
“Right now, you’re way over here,” attorney Kimberlee Norris said in Dallas, swinging her arm to one side. “You think there’s a pedophile under every rock.” The alternative, Norris said, swinging her arm to the other side, is to stay unaware and unprepared for the potential for sexual abuse in churches and ministries. In a […]
I almost quit
This summer my son Caleb and I continued our quest to climb as many of the tallest mountains of Colorado as we can. There are 58 mountains in the state that are 14,000 feet in elevation or higher, and we have now summitted 30 of them together. There are a number of different ways that […]
Following God’s odd road map
On my last Sunday at my southern California church ten years ago, my pastor surprised me by calling me up to pray for my upcoming move. Friends surrounded me as his voice echoed across the school gym. “Lord, be with Meredith as she moves to Indiana.” My head still bowed, I cracked open one eye […]
Revive and refocus
Once each year, the almost one thousand churches of the Illinois Baptist State Association are invited together into one place, for one large family gathering. The IBSA Annual Meeting, hosted this year at Cornerstone Church in Marion, is for many a “reunion” of long-time friends, co-laborers, and ministry partners. For others it is a time […]
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