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Apr, 07, 2016 0
What does it mean to be one who affirms and embodies God’s work of sanctification? God’s holy people, made holy by God’s Holy Spirit, resembling nothing more than God’s holy One? Why does this matter for our everyday lives?
Whenever I find myself considering what it means to be wholly holy (…
Apr, 07, 2016 0
Frequently I read articles that speak of the heavy responsibilities pastors carry, and point to related depression, moral failure rates, and burnout among church leaders. The discussion usually involves how congregations should treat (or not treat) them as to prevent such fallout.
As a pastor I’ve…
Apr, 07, 2016 0
HT: What is the most translated piece of Nazarene literature?
Scott: Several years ago, the Board of General Superintendents released a small booklet called Core Values: Christian, Holiness, Missional. By 2007, it was available in 24 languages, passing Chic Shaver’s Basic Bible Studies for New and…
Apr, 06, 2016 0
Question: Our pastor does not seem to be connecting with the families in our church. A few people have even expressed concerns to me regarding the pastor’s leadership and preaching. What should I do?
Eddie: Pastor-parish relations in general, and unresolved conflict between church members and…
Apr, 06, 2016 0
Julie Keith shares ideas about connecting the church community to people with special needs.
What’s the need?
We had children with special needs who now were teenagers but had to attend a class designed for children. They needed their own place to worship and serve in.
What’s the idea?
To…
Apr, 06, 2016 0
The great cellist Pablo Casals, in the story of his life called Joys and Sorrows, recalls the first time he went to church on Christmas Eve. He was five years old. He tells about walking to the church in a small village in Spain, hand-in-hand with his father, the church organist. As he walked, he…
Apr, 06, 2016 0
See that can over there? Why don’t you pick it up?
It was the third soda can Barb Reindel had walked by that morning on her prayer walk, and she recognized the insistent voice in her head as the gentle nudge of the Holy Spirit. Bringing it home, she told her husband, Louie, “It seems that God…
Apr, 06, 2016 0
We live in a world inundated with fear. A sense of danger lurks in the shadows. Our comfort zones evaporate all around us. Muggings, drive-by shootings, workplace violence—we can feel our security threatened by hateful hands. And unbelievably, now we must face the reality of global terrorist…
Aug, 13, 2015 0
Muzee had attended Main de l'Éternel (Hand of the Lord) Church of the Nazarene off and on for about a year because the pastor, Mike Kalenga, had ministered to his wife.
This man believed in God but was not living a Christian life. He was living with addictions and other unhealthy habits. But as…
Aug, 13, 2015 0
John was about 12 years old when his parents, Simon and Serah, asked missionary David Potter to dedicate him to the Lord along with several other children. The Church of the Nazarene had been meeting under a tarp in their yard for a year. During that time the children gathered for Sunday school and…