As damaging as all the ministry schisms are in modern day churches, they do not compare to the potential damage done on the early Church by the dissension between Paul and Barnabas over John Mark
Dormant illnesses in your church body, long overlooked, can become crippling under COVID’s duress.
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?
It could be that Jesus has brought a disciplinary “sword” into your congregation because church leaders have a blind spot.
Conflict in churches is as common as it is in the families that make up those churches. However, there are cases where a traditional mediation approach to church conflict will fail to gain the desired result of peace.
Don’t hate on the on the mainstream media. God wants us to hear the media’s message and realize the implications for the Church.
We cannot escape the conclusion that God sometimes uses Satan to release a spirit of “ill will” within or against congregations.
For all the good of limited scope NDAs, they have often been used as a form of domination and keeping sin in the dark.
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.
As part of a consulting ministry that works to heal churches from devastating internal crises, the moral failure of a Christian leader is, sadly, a familiar scenario.
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.
I want to share four things that happen as a group drifts toward characteristics of a cult.
In our work with churches, we’ve learned that new churches often resemble the mother churches from which they were birthed. This can be good or bad!
There has been much more emphasis on getting tested for Covid than there has been on seeing Covid as a test. Yet, Covid is for God’s people “an hour of testing,” as it is for everyone on the planet.
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.
