Part 2 of series: Planning and Goals: Is There Room for the Holy Spirit? Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series As I explained yesterday, strategic planning can be perilous for Christians and Christian organizations. It can be a time to project our personal goals onto God. And once we have our goals,…

Can we make plans and formulate goals and still leave room for the Holy Spirit? Should churches and other Christian organizations have formalized processes for clarifying vision and setting goals? Can the Spirit of God speak to us in the midst of a goal-setting process? If so, how? What can we do to let God…

I recently received the following blog comment from Mark Goodyear of goodwordediting.com: Interesting series, Mark. Funny side story. My brother in law was the chaplain in his high school in the early 1990s. He was elected after a farcical Ferris Bueller style campaign. At the first football game, he wanted to avoid the Jesus problem.…

A few days ago I put up a post that responded to an unfortunate email promotion from Amazon.com. Because my books have been purchased by people who also purchased the excellent Christian books by Don Williams, the Amazon.com computer figured that buyers of my books would also be interested in a sexually-perverse book by another…

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