One of our elders, Dave Lewis, passed on to me an excellent study: House Church and Mission: The importance of Household Structures in Early Christianity by Roger Gehring. Ghering’s work challenges some American assumptions about how we think of church in larger gatherings. His in-depth biblical research can open our minds to fresh ways of [...]

Jesus gives his famous new commandment in John chapter 13 in the Upper Room right after his last supper with his disciples whose feet he washed just before the meal in an astounding example of servanthood with the towel wrapped around his waist. What I have never noticed is the immediate context right before and [...]

Do you find yourself putting in a lot of extra time at work or running all over town to drop off the kids at this or that activity? Are you juggling responsibilities at home, work, church, school, and in the community, and does it seem you have at least one too many balls in the [...]