Nightmare in Nashville
The cycle of national pain has escalated since Columbine. How do we make sense of such shattering and fracturing events?
The cycle of national pain has escalated since Columbine. How do we make sense of such shattering and fracturing events?
We should not think that repentance alone will always quell ingrained sin patterns, especially when they are deeply rooted and a part of a church’s “culture.”
Don’t let worms spoil your ministry. By keeping your church worm-free, you will become better fishers of men!
Commonly mistaken for coincidence or chance, we don’t always recognize the Divine significance behind so-called “coincidences” in church life.
Why discipline Moses over his angry response (striking the rock rather than speaking to it) and what can Christian leaders learn from it about sinful reactivity in congregational meetings?
Most corporate ill health operates behind the scenes, hidden from the eyes of visitors on Sunday morning. But there are signs of health you can discern in a couple of visits.
Whether COVID 19 is a harbinger of the plagues in Revelation, we do not know. But it shines a light on the Divine purpose of plagues that has gone completely overlooked.
When God orchestrates painful events, He has an issue with and message for the church (or nation) in question.
Our time in or under God’s Word is to be primarily a relational exercise, not a mental one.
For some reason, churches often have misplaced empathy and tolerance toward some people that ends up exposing them to significant danger.
Despite our obliviousness, God uses dramatic, attention-getting signs to speak to nations.
What was once a fruited plain now drowns in waves of pain.
The tricky part to resolving church conflict wisely, is that in many cases what appears as a church discipline or interpersonal conflict, can be an expression of an unresolved corporate conflict in the history of the church.
“Sweeping things under the rug” is a common idiom to describe the way people (and sometimes churches) handle painful and
We at Blessing Point often deal with ministries where everyone appears to be on a different frequency. Just as a
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