Tom Norvell reminds us that as far as failure goes, Peter pretty much leads the way, but he also leads the way in turnarounds and being called back to significant ministry.
05/06/2016 by Tom Norvell
Phil Ware continues his series of articles on churches facing the challenges of the interim season and uses the imagery of high mountain climbing to help us appreciate the challenges.
09/28/2015 by Phil Ware
Phil Ware reminds of the Bible's repeated call to make the LORD the center of our lives and our focus and how Jesus must be that for us if we dare call ourselves Christians.
08/10/2015 by Phil Ware
Phil Ware begins a series called Saved at Sea which focuses on God's deliverance and truth found in the stories about the sea and rivers and water in the Bible.
06/08/2015 by Phil Ware
Mark Frost of http://www.interimministrypartners.com shares part two on the journey through the wilderness during the interim and how God is preparing his people for great things.
05/04/2014 by Mark Frost
Phil Ware shares a collection of Scriptures that talk about the significance of Jesus' birth.
12/25/2012 by Phil Ware
Phil Ware finishes the year 2012 with two powerful posts or articles about Jesus' birth and the people gathered around him, and emphasizes that God's greatest beginnings are found in hard endings.
12/23/2012 by Phil Ware
Rubel Shelly reminds us of what is most important and truthful and what is legend about the Christmas story.
11/30/2012 by Rubel Shelly
Phil Ware goes over a number of inaccuracies that have crept in to our telling of the story of Jesus at Christmas, but reminds us that the main thing is that Jesus came for everyone and the more we know the story, the more we know it is true.
12/18/2011 by Phil Ware
Phil Ware looks at the birth of Jesus and asks the very simple question: why did God reveal the birth of his Son to shepherds first?
12/04/2011 by Phil Ware
This is a simple meditation on the meaning of the Shepherd Psalm, Psalm 23.
02/01/2011 by Anonymous
Phil Ware takes an incident of love and laughter with his foster grandson and learns a powerful insight into God, who chose to let us see his face and hear his voice in Jesus.
12/10/2010 by Phil Ware
Phil Ware continues his series of messages on true shepherds in the church and focuses on the subject of a leader's glory -- seeing his or her passion formed in others they have trained.
11/12/2009 by Phil Ware
Phil Ware tells about a time he lost his son Zachary and then found him and the joy of finding lost sheep in the teaching of Jesus.
11/05/2009 by Phil Ware
Phil Ware talks about Nathan's rebuke of David using a shepherding story, the use of shepherd imagery to describe God, and the call of God's leaders to be shepherds to the people of God.
10/22/2009 by Phil Ware
Reading the story of a lost sheep with his son allows a father to really hear what is in his sons heart and how he is his sons shepherd.
04/16/2006 by Danny Sims
We have taken the joy, glory, risk, holiness, excitment out of Christmas and made it predictable and boring.
12/15/2005 by Jeff Lee
We must view the world outside our churches in new ways, especially through the eyes of compassion like Jesus did.
05/30/2004 by Patrick D. Odum
Let's find a fresh joy in going back to Bethlehem for the birth of our Lord!
12/25/2003 by Melva Cooper
We have let the world take Jesus out of Christmas and just make it a secular holiday; let's remember to make sure any holiday we celebrate is to the Lord and put Jesus back into our Christmas celebrations.
12/21/2003 by Rubel Shelly
So often leaders do not do their most important work, living out God's purpose for them, because they are so busy handling problems and crises.
11/17/2003 by Phil Ware