Leadership
Wedding talk (another one)
Life is like a voyage there are times of smooth sailing and rough sailing. Main thing is to have your ship in good order. You started a voyage together when you got on board the good ship “Friendship” then you changed to the better ship called “Courtship” and today you embark on a ship called […]
Helping someone with schizophrenia
From a pastor-friend: Hi Everyone, My current Church is ministering to a Christian man (late 20s) who is suffering from schizophrenia. He is currently stabilised but is struggling to accept the fact that his past life has been forgiven by the Lord and that he now has new life. Any helpful books, articles, or advice […]
Blood is Thick
Blood is thick by Gavan O’Farrell The new disunity of Christians Problems have a way of mutating, and I think that the tensions between Christians have been relocated, not removed. The differences that divide Christians used to be between the denominations, and this is how ecumenical efforts were targeted. Today, I believe the differences are […]
Google Books
From a netfriend (August 2006): Church matters in Google Books In the last few days http://books.google.com has released a torrent of material. Go there, enter “church” or “Christian” and click on the tab and you’ll see some interesting overviews. BUT, if you click on “Full view books” first then you’ll get those that you can […]
The Silent voice of the departing chruch laity
From an Australian netfriend: I have just discovered two fascinating books by Uniting Church lay person Emeritus Professor Rod Jensen from Brisbane. He says that like so many other laypeople, he has been saddened by the apparently inevitable decline of most of the Christian churches in the Western world, and the apparent reluctance of the […]
Installation Homily
(A friend in Canberra alerted me to this… Archbishop Coleridge is an impressive man… Rowland) ~~~ ARCHBISHOP MARK BENEDICT COLERIDGE HOMILY AT THE INSTALLATION MASS OF ARCHBISHOP MARK COLERIDGE AS SIXTH ARCHBISHOP OF CANBERRA AND GOULBURN St Christopher’s Cathedral, 17 August 2006 In times long past, it was God who called Abraham, and the angel […]
Funeral idea
Pastor’s question: I am leading a memorial service for a student who died a few weeks ago in a car accident. The other students are wanting to do “something symbolic” at the end and I have a feeling that something on a rainbow theme might work. Anyone got any bright ideas about how one might […]
Mainline Denominations
Some notes from various sources for a seminar in which I participated today… The new TEC Hymn: Our gospel is inclusive. (The other one’s passe.) We welcome all the sexes, Transgendered, lesbigay. And though we’re loudly preaching Our relevant good news, We are a tad perplexed by So many empty pews. –Rev. J. M. Deschene, […]
The Perfect Church
(~) The Perfect Church If you should find the perfect church Without one fault or smear, For goodness sake! Don’t join that church: You’d spoil the atmosphere. If you should find the perfect church Where all anxieties cease Then pass it by lest joining it You’d mar the masterpiece. If you should find the perfect […]
An Imperfect Church
And here’s an example of an other-than-perfect church (warning: switch ‘irony software’ on before viewing): A Bible based blog and find out about the ministry of Wyrst Pentacostal Church. http://mypage.cooeey.com/DaleKWhangke
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