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But sometimes it’s hard to go to church.

Responding to this survey, one of you asked: What do you do if you don’t like to go to church on Sunday mornings? What do you do if every time you try and go to church the service makes you cry so you get embarrassed and don’t go back? What do you do if someone […]

by Paul Merrill

Stop

Sometimes the best way to start over is to clear your plate. The most vibrant church Heather and I were part of did just that. They wiped all their ministries off the plate. Small groups, worship teams, drama, Sunday school programs. Everything. And they let God rebuild the church slowly. They lost a lot of […]

by Jon Swanson

The temptation of spring break.

For most schools around us, this week is “spring break.” It’s a week of great temptation. Not for the kids who head to the south, free of parental constraints, susceptible to all kinds of appeals. Well maybe for them. But certainly for people who are left behind, who are still having events. Certainly for executive pastors […]

by Jon Swanson

Sometimes there is nothing I can do

I want to help. I want to solve problems. I want to help you take care of whatever is going wrong. When someone calls with a question, with a concern, with a problem, I want to fix it. When someone is unhappy, I want to make them happy. When there is an earthquake, I want […]

by Jon Swanson

Safe terror.

When I was working on my goals for the year, my 99 goals, here’s one thing I wrote: Make 300 words a primary resource for people wanting to learn safely about the terrors of following Jesus. When I look at that goal now, I have no idea what I was thinking when I wrote it. […]