Category: Columns
We Value Trust
by Timothy Teuscher “We value telling the truth in love, doing what we say we will do, and stewarding all ministry resources to the glory of God.” That is the sixth value statement or core principle which undergirds and reflects what our walking together as…
In Review: The Banshees of Inisherin
by Ted Giese Near the end of the Irish civil war in the 1920s just off the west coast of Ireland on the island Inisherin two long time friends suddenly become estranged when folk musician Colm Doherty stops talking to the affable but somewhat oblivious…
Catechism as pattern of the universe
by David Haberstock God our Father created the universe by speaking it into existence, and by doing so He established meaning and order in all things. We live in the aftermath of the modern era, in which society’s understanding of the world is rooted in…
What can I do?
by Marvin Bublitz I found myself asking that question again when I was talking with a friend who had been diagnosed with cancer: I said what I have said countless times to others in 32 years of ministry, “What can I do?” After we finished…
Jesus Revolution: Church history, 20th century-style
by Ted Giese When Janette Smith brings home a hippy hitchhiker named Lonnie Frisbee to meet her father, Pastor Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, California, Smith is surprised to discover the young man is a street preacher. By embracing the growing swell…
Why are you weeping?
by Robert Mohns A man holds his two sons closely. Before them is the grave and the casket-enshrined body of his beautiful bride. The wintery winds blow clumps of snow down upon the grieving family, and it seems to the man as though legions of…
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