Part of my job involves event planning, and we usually raffle off prizes (usually good prizes) to attract more people. We even tried to get a used car to raffle off at the Gumbo Cook-Off this year (it didn’t work out). There’s no question that if you want to attract a lot of people to...
*The following article is reproduced in its entirety with permission. God is changing the Church, and that, in turn, will change the world. Millions of Christians around the world are aware of an imminent reformation of global proportions. They say, in effect: “Church as we know it is preventing Church as God wants it.” A...
Last Spring I read an article about a local author living in Fairhope across the bay from Mobile. Karen Spears Zacharias is from all over the place, but last I heard she lived across the Mobile Bay in one of the loveliest little towns Alabama has ever produced. She’s written several books, but the one...
If there is one essential to Christianity, it is that at its core we have the Gospel- literally, the Good News. The Gospel we preach produces the churches we get. Over the last ten years I’ve spent a lot of time on determining what the Gospel is. What comprises the Gospel? What makes it good...
Every day we wake up and are immediately thrust into the world as agents of change. Everything we do impacts someone or something. The vast majority of us wake up and, whether we realize it or not, through our bitterness, jealousy, rage, and cruelty find ever-creative ways to transform the world for the worse. We...
