Loading ...Matthew | February 25, 2009
This Thursday Charity, the Kids, and I are heading to Nashville. Charity and the family are going to stay with the family while I head on to Memphis to stay with Joe Godley. He is the administration minister for the Sycramore View church of Christ. The last time I stayed with him and had a [...]
Matthew | February 24, 2009
Charity, the kids, and I are making a trip back to Tennessee on Thursday. The family is going to see some friends and family members and I am going to see the classroom at Harding Graduate School. But over the weekend, Charity and I are going to Waynesboro to see everyone. On Sunday, I will [...]
Matthew | February 23, 2009
I typically like autobiographies of famous business people. Ted Turner has been a larger than life character for numerous years. The book was fascinating because of the different experiences that Ted went through in his childhood and in his adult years. It is amazing that most of the affluent men could have lost everything if [...]
Matthew | February 20, 2009
Years ago the church provided a sense of community for most believers. People arrived at church with a mission to serve God but also a desire to connect with neighbors and friends. The church provided the feeling of community a generation ago. In the nineties, numerous churches started to develop churches in coffee shops to [...]
Matthew | February 18, 2009
In the Denver area, there was a preacher’s lunch for numerous years. The story goes that the man who worked this lunch past away and the lunch with him. Over the last few weeks, Steven Curo and I have been eating lunch with various ministers in the area. In these lunches, there is a strong [...]
Matthew | February 17, 2009
Recently, I have been into reading books about extreme mountain climbing. This book was excellent as it recounted a unbelievable story of survival. The book talks about two climbers in the mountains but one ends up breaking a leg. The two work together to get down the hill as quickly as possible, but in the [...]
Matthew | February 16, 2009
This is another book that was required reading for the Doctorate of Ministry program this semester. The opening illustration of the man wanting to come over to talk about his problems and the author (minister) inviting him over even though he was wore out and his wife was wore out too. It was a classic [...]
Matthew | February 13, 2009
This pass week I have been working on my taxes, insurance, and retirement. At the Castle Rock congregation, the elders provide a service to the minister through a organization called “Assist.” This is a business that specializes in a minister’s retirement, taxes, and insurance. The congregation pays a small fee for me to have access [...]
Matthew | February 12, 2009
This week I was eating lunch with a friend and we were thinking about code words within the church. This was a funny conversation because of the different terminology that we use to connote various ideas. These terms have hidden meanings sometimes that only church members understand. A outsider to the movement would perhaps think [...]
Matthew | February 11, 2009
To stop inappropriate communication within a congregation, every member must act in a healthy manner toward those who seek to triangulate others in the body of believers. The person must stop and inquire about whether or not the person has gone to the other party directly before he or she is willing to listen to [...]
