September 30, 2020
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COVID-19, Church, and Contradictions
Self-giving and self-protective. Adaptable and anti-change. Gracious and grumbling. This is the church in 2020. Perhaps this has always been so.
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My congregation enrolled last year and have a number of staff contributing to a 403(b). A few notes (offered by someone who is not a financial planner, so 'grain of salt'):
1) There is some...
posted on: Feedback on CRCNA 403b-9 Retirement Plan? -
Thanks for an insightful and incredibly practical set of guidelines. This is something I've innately tried to do, but never have put words to it nor have I ever seen it distilled into a principle...
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This is a great story – but the conclusions drawn from in in the second-to-last paragraph lost me. There seems to be a theologically (and logically) invalid jump from "We don't own Jesus" directly...
posted on: We Don't Own Jesus -
Ditto for the context in which I currently minister. In rural, Midwestern America, the missional edge is much more with what Barna calls the "prodigals/nomads/exiles" - rather than than the...
posted on: Keeping An Eye On Your CVI -
Thanks for the helpful article! In the toolkit that Faith Alive is preparing, I hope we can help direct churches to other Reformed publishing houses. The linked chart of 50 curriculums appears to...
posted on: Every Pastor in the CRC Should Hear This -
Hi Simon,
I've assembled several commissioning liturgies for a non-ordained youth pastor/youth director. If interested, send me an e-mail ([email protected]) and I'll attach them as Word...