Here’s the jazz connection in all of this. How do we find unity in the body of Christ?  Some say, city-wide prayer summits and worship services.  Other churches have formal partnerships with other fellowships and swap pastors occasionally.  I have nothing against these approaches and have (and will) participated in them.  I’d like to add…

It’s not hard for a local church to do something! Hope for Orphans, a ministry of Family Life, has taken on the task of resourcing the bride of Christ when it comes to orphan care.  I have had the privilege participating in some of their endeavors. They have a very practical book and DVD called,…

If God is the Father then who is the mother?  Nineteen thousand children "age out" of the foster care system in America each year.  That is, they turn 18 not knowing who will take them off to college or walk them down the aisle when the get married.  Last week, I heard a woman say…

No more Limbo?  The Pope is putting an end to the Catholic theological hypothesis of Limbo.  For years the Catholic church has wrestled with what happens to unbaptized infants after they have died.  Their reasoning has been:  Hell?  No.  Purgatory? No  Heaven?  No.  Limbo?  Maybe.  Recently the Pope is saying that there is no real…

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