Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! Last week I was reminded of a short video about leadership: "First Follower: Leadership Lessons from a Dancing Guy". The visual is of a crowd on the lawn at a concert. It is clearly an outdoor ampitheater. The footage is shaky, cellphone stock. And what we see …
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Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! The word we probably hear the most in church this time of year is "prepare." Which seems natural, right? We're preparing our homes for the holiday, our church for its big day, and all that stuff that happens with Christmas. But the preparing that the season …
Gathering more gifts and gratitude
Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! The wisdom we've gleaned about financial stewardship in the church has been cultivated over decades by experts, run through systems of analysis, practiced in varieties of contexts, and refined into practices offered to the wider church with such assurance that …