Palliative (Pal-lee-ah-tive) - Alleviating pain and symptoms without eliminating the cause.
Palliative care is what you get when you check into a hospice in the end stages of life. It is the care you get when treating the illness is no longer an option and the only thing left to do is provide as […]

Communication: It’s been part of the cutting edge of every significant Christian movement known throughout history.
Be it word of mouth, stick drawings in the sand, or the printed page; Christian movements have used the communication tools of the day to effectively impact their culture.
Today communication is called social networking, […]

I’ll never forget the experience. I was conducting a worship consultation for a client church. I came 15 minutes early - no one was at the door to greet me. I walked inside the building with the intent of looking lost - no one approached me to help. I navigated my way to an information […]

In my last post I opened the subject that consumerism is alive and well in the American church (See e-bay ecclesiology). I mentioned a board member who told me, “The people who give their money to the church should get what they want out of the church.”

It is important to point out this board member […]

Welcome to the new world of church government and fund raising. It’s called e-bay ecclesiology. It’s simple, really. Every church Decision, every sermon topic, every hospital visitation, every staffing decision, every Sunday morning song list, every outreach event, every Sunday School lesson, every serving position; everything that goes on in the life of the church […]

Another Flu virus has garnered the national and local media spotlight. By now you have heard of the Swine flu - now being spun as the H1N1 flu.

Question: What about the “G1 flu”? It is perhaps the oldest strain known to man. It affects all of society, and for some reason it thrives in the […]