Why Are Churches in Cities Not Growing?
There is a basic difference between churches in rural areas in America and churches in cities. In many cases, the churches in cities are in areas that are seeing growth, and sometimes massive growth, in population. Almost all rural churches have stagnant or even...
Thanksgiving
Celebrations of Thanksgiving in America trace back to an October 1621 banquet of the Pilgrims in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, along with about ninety Wampanoag Indians. After God had so richly blessed the colonists’ efforts, Governor William Bradford declared a day...
Feeling the Tension?
It was the year 54 A.D. Rome, the most powerful nation on earth, coronated its new leader Nero, the adopted son of the previous ruler Claudius. The church was just over twenty years old. The movement that was small at first had spread throughout the Empire. These...
We Want Change!
We Want Change! I was reading a book written over 400 years ago that talked about “jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.” That mistake is about as older than the saying. We overreact to a bad situation and end up making things worse. There is perhaps no...