Jodie felt like walking out of the church building and never going back. Her life was pretty tough, and she expected church to be a place of refuge, not a battleground. When she got through the door, though, there wasn’t much peace. First, someone tried to pressure her into signing up for a new meeting, […]
On this day more than five hundred years ago, Martin Luther nailed a document to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany. Luther’s document is now famously known as his 95 Theses, in which he disputed unbiblical and exploitative practices by the Roman Catholic Church. October 31 later became known as Reformation Day, although the scope […]
My Sunday mornings rarely look like breakfast in bed and peaceful drives to church. More often than I’d like to admit, I stumble into church ten minutes late, flustered from trying to find that one missing shoe and hurrying everyone out the door. During the worship service, a flood of distractions fight for my attention—the […]
As I write this, I’m in a seemingly never-ending battle with the flu in our home. Sadly enough, these six days of fevers have one silver lining. We didn’t have to make the excruciating decision of what church we would visit on Sunday. You see, my husband and I have been searching for a new […]
Seated at the piano in front of our church, tears came to my eyes. We were singing a familiar song, but on this particular day, when I sang the words, “The story of redemption written on his hand…” from the sheet of music in front of me, I wasn’t just leading our congregation in worship […]
This article is part of our This Moment Matters series. Read previous articles in the series here: “Does This Really Matter?” by Gretchen Saffles “Being an Ambassador in Your Workplace” by Fernie Cosgrove [Editor’s Note: We know that some of you have been hurt by the church (some of the women on our team have […]
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