This post was first published in January, 2015. —ed. Churches are everywhere. So why is it so difficult to find a good one? There are many towns and cities void of even one Bible-teaching, gospel-proclaiming, disciple-making church. There are several reasons good churches are so rare today. 1. Leaders are entrepreneurs, not shepherds. Recent decades … Continued
By Elizabeth Prata A parachurch organization is a Christian ministry that operates outside the local church’s governance and funding. Some work closely with a church, others are loosely conne…
The aging process and be a challenging one for all of us. Here are ideas for how to improve your mental health as a senior adult.
By Elizabeth Prata Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren made headlines again this past summer 2022 when he opined at the Southern Baptist Convention about how wonderful he is, listing alleged spiri…
The Adaptive Cycle is a way to understand the natural evolutionary stages of an individual, system, organization, church or even a society
The origin of sex between a man and a woman goes back to the origins of human beings on earth. Human beings engage in sex both for pleasure and procreation, “The man had sexual relations with Eve h…
We are all growing older, aren’t we? None of us is immune to the process of aging as the years pass … as the months fly by … and as the weeks disappear. The reality of time is impossible to escape. We are all growing older year by year ... month by month ... day by day. As the old saying goes
As people age, their health doesn’t always change at the same pace. As a result, you may have one parent who needs the full-time support that only a nursing home can provide and another who doesn’t. When that happens, it’s hard to figure out what to do.
Nanci and I have had end-of-present-life conversations going back years and again in recent months.
Nearly everyone has been exposed to the damage an ungodly heritage can be in someone’s life. Often, we hear horror stories of fathers who be...
