Were Jesus’ Disciples Real Christians?

Were Jesus’ Disciples Real Christians?

Take a close look at how so many Americanized Christians define their faith today. What are the priorities, even essentials, they embrace and seek to enforce on others? It begins with “accepting Jesus” and moves pretty quickly to a few doctrinal points and defining...
Don’t Scapegoat Your Minister

Don’t Scapegoat Your Minister

Every pastor hears it: Just do what one of your predecessors did a few decades ago and all will be well within congregational life. Nope. Yet, somewhere in that row of dusty and successive portraits — likely lining a wall enroute to the sanctuary — is the image of a...