Our worship team rehearses each Sunday before the morning service. And it’s become a challenge because our team has started having kids… lots of kids. So usually at around 8:45am our stage gets full of guitars, keyboards, microphones… toddlers and babies. (And to be honest – I really thought that once kids started showing up, …
Most churches are famously among the most under-used real estate in the world with rooms used just once a week for Sunday morning worship. Goshen Church is not like most churches. One of the things we’re able to use the building for is Addiction Recovery groups. – We host five AA/NA meetings each week. Today …
Romans 12:15b “…mourn with those who mourn.” I spent this afternoon at the bedside of one of our church widows surrounded by pictures of people taken too soon. Today, a grey, rainy day, is the 1 year anniversary of the passing of her daughter who lived with her after her husband passed. I typically enter …
Most church buildings are famously the most under-used real estate spaces in the world – with services on Sunday mornings, seldom in use during the week. Goshen is not like most church buildings. – One of the groups we’re able to host is a non-profit that serves the special needs community. This team works at …
Late to this party, but I’ll bite. Most people don’t realize the dual purpose of Christmas public worship. Christmas is for faithful. BUT it’s really for the non-faithful. In the last decades thoughtful churches have noticed that non-church attenders are more willing to visit churches during the Christmas and Easter than other seasons. – It’s …
Posting for the memory… of that year when the Flu came uninvited for Thanksgiving. Picture from days later… parents standing strong eating dinner along with the kids passed out on the couch… days before also getting the Flu… Someday this post will pop up on a “5 years ago” notification… maybe it will be funny …
I voted… and I think you probably should too. But I think long lasting cultural revolution only happens if we together work at raising kids with character, ethics and morals. We transform the next generation of leaders and change, by being a current generation of kindness and integrity. And I’m convinced that following the way …
Some folks wonder what church leaders spend their time talking about: If you could be a fly on the wall you’d hear our elders discussing how to be a community as described in this picture (from a book we’ve been talking through over the last months). God has called Christians to be about following Christ …
You might not be able to tell this from social media, but the fundamental mindset of Christians should be hope. God’s future kindness (e.g. future hope) outshines present darkness. What Jesus will do should shape what we do now. (And we’re not good at this, so 1 Peter tells Christians to be alert – actively …
Ashley gives a master class on how to pray for kids in school (with some help from her friends at Moms in Prayer) Scripture Prayers to Pray for Students, Teachers, School Administrators, and School Support StaffDevote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. Colossians 4:2 (NIV)
