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Ministry to Single Moms
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Men’s team ministry fascinates me for many reasons. One if them is the way it involves several different kinds of ministry. It involves men’s ministry, of course. But it also involves ministries to widows, widowers, single moms and dads, fatherless and motherless children, the disabled, and anyone else with long […]
The late Dr. John G. Mitchell, a well known and much loved pastor and Bible teacher in the Pacific Northwest, would tease his students when they couldn’t answer a biblical question during his lectures. He’d lean over his lectern, smile, and ask, “Don’t you read your Bible?” Over the past […]
My childhood church had a Good Friday tradition of holding a special service at noon on the seven last words of Jesus. Since it was a downtown church, business people from the surrounding offices attended the service. Traditionally called the seven last words of Jesus, they’re actually the seven last […]
I’ve often thought that combining a retirement home with an orphanage, foster care facility, preschool, or even an elementary school, would be super cool. The resulting interaction would develop a symbiotic relationship where older adults help with childcare and share their wisdom, while the children give purpose and joy to […]
This post is a follow up on a recent one entitled, “Are Seminaries the Reason why Churches Ignore their Widowed and Single Parents?” I was going to title this one, “Are Pastors the Reason why Churches Ignore their Widowed and Single Parents?” But most pastors are already overburdened and stressed […]
Explicit and pervasive, that’s how I describe what the Bible says about widows and orphans.
Next Christmas, when you set up your nativity scene, you might consider leaving out the wise men. The reason is because the Bible tells us that the wise men didn’t visit Mary and Joseph and Jesus until about two years after he was born, and when they did, they visited […]
“Simple things for simple people.” I like that saying because I’m one of those simple people. I don’t like complexity, chaos and confusion. That’s why I make my bed every day. It’s a simple thing I can do to add order to my life. An unmade bed, with blankets, sheets […]
Learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow. Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord. Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they […]