How to Grow Your Church

How to Grow Your Church

I was once interim pastor of an inner city church that had, for various reasons, begun to decline in numbers.  As church attendance dropped, month after month and year after year, the remaining congregation began to face the possibility that its days might be...
What is the Gospel?

What is the Gospel?

When our son Paul was about three years old, he was given a t-shirt that had a picture of a dinosaur on the front.  When we used to ask Paul what was on his shirt, he would grin and say, “Triceratops. Can you say that?” We would answer, “Well yeah,...
Why did Paul defend his own apostleship?

Why did Paul defend his own apostleship?

In 2 Corinthians Paul gives a sustained defense of his apostleship. He had received quite a number of “slaps in the face” from the Corinthian congregation, and from certain opponents in Corinth. Though Paul was the founder of the Church and had spent some...