I sit two days out from the first mandated “Stay at home” quarantine issued by the state of Connecticut. I have just come through the last week stuck at home with my four kids due to the quarantine issued over the COVID-19 virus outbreak. It has been a surreal time for everyone. This is something [...]
Loving Your Community by Stephen Viars is a good primer on how the church ministers to its community instead of expecting the community to come to it. The author uses personal examples of ways his church reached out and seized the opportunities around them-some of which are not so obvious. The author also uses testimonials [...]
Your past often shapes you into the adult you become- both bad and good experiences. Often to understand someone today, you need to learn where they came from. This idea is what the premise of Becoming CS Lewis: A Biography of Young Jack Lewis (1898-1918) by Harry Lee Poe is. We know much of his [...]
The church seems to be at the back end of a generational war over the issue of music used in church services. For over a decade, churches battled over drum usage, modern music, congregational or performance singing, lighting usage and much more. Churches have split over the issue. Often the splits are generational in nature. [...]
When I was young, one of my parent’s primary shopping places was K-Mart. It was always a big deal when I got to go and roam the toy aisles, try to find all the blue lights and smell the popcorn at the food bar on the way out. It was bliss! Then around the age [...]
