Post from openbible.info about the most prevalent words that form the names of local churches in the USA. One of the main differences I noticed is the use of the word ‘First’ as part of a church name. I can’t think of an instance of it being used in Australia. It features in 21% of …
At Head – Heart – Hand, David Murray provides a very helpful post on the subject of ‘A Normal Pastoral Visit’. I was not really trained or mentored in pastoral visitation as an elder or a pastor. This has meant that visiting is not focussed or purposeful. In this vein, of particular use is a …
Michael Bird describes (tongue in cheek, it must be stressed) a ministry training course entitled ‘Discovering Your True Calling’. Nathan Campbell has discovered some video that demonstrates that reality is again stranger than fiction and embedded it in his post ‘If I Fail Greek’. It was the contrast between these two posts that I found …
So, another birthday rolls past. I get where this post from Thabiti Anyabwile is coming from. When you walk by an elementary school IT classroom and overhear the teacher say to the students with incredulous excitement, “Has anyone ever seen an overhead projector?” Apparently, I’m a dinosaur. I not only remember them, I remember when …
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