The New Testament provides little structural information about its first generation church. There are no details like those given to Noah to build his boat. There are…… Read more “First Generation Church”

Right is always right. Especially if it is my opinion, right becomes even “righter.” What if my verbal opponent is wrong, but is certain—beyond a shadow of…… Read more “I’m Right – You’re Wrong – God Loses”

I am an expert in practicing division. I am a child of the 1950s and 1960s. Unfortunately, the vocabulary of division is deep in my DNA. Like…… Read more “Practicing Division”

Dandruff appears on dark clothes as flakes. Flakes of bread and cereal are crumbs. Old paint causes flakes to fall from walls. To describe a person as…… Read more “Flakes and Snowflakes”

I suspect the Godhead sees no reason to place an adjective before church. Church is church. On earth, it is the assembly of faulty believers, and in…… Read more “Cross-Church”

“A Christian is someone who thinks nobody else is.” I never met Wells Farnham—a co-founder of John Stott Ministries USA—however, I do appreciate his wry sense of…… Read more “Just Me”

Detail people drive me crazy. As somewhat of a detail person, I give myself some slack. However, when it comes to dealing with people who score 25…… Read more “Is God Detail Compulsive?”

I don’t remember the television product. I do remember the advocates would “rather fight than switch.” Ok. I just looked it up. It was 1960s Tareyton Cigarette smokers.…… Read more “Why the Fighting”

I like the fruits. The letter to first century Galatian Christians lists faithfulness as a fruit of the Spirit along with the eight fruits of love, joy,…… Read more “Baptizing Satan’s Gourds”

Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her  to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,  and to present her to himself as a…… Read more “Radient, Holy, Blameless”

On a photo shoot in the great city of Brasilia, my lighting guy plugged the bank of Photo Spot Lights into the wall, and with a blinding…… Read more “Gifted”

The one church is two. When living in Brazil, our team constructed a two-track model as key to planting churches.  We envisioned the model like a railroad…… Read more “Railroad and Church”

I am a member of a fellowship of churches who have fought for over a hundred years. They are my people. They are my family. We are…… Read more “Let’s Call a Truce”

The 21st century North American church encounters a landscape of confused observers. It is in our culture where the young and not so young chant, “Jesus yes!…… Read more “Jesus and Church”