4 Things That Keep People Out of Your Church
- No One Knows … Or Cares … That You Exist
- You Have Lousy Hospitality
- You Have Unresolved Conflict
- Your Ministries Aren’t Creating Transformed Lives
These are people who you know exactly who they are, not because they are perfect, but because they try to live life consistent with their faith. The best word I can think of for this type of consistency is faithfulness. These are people who are faithful to God, family and their calling.
A similar path is possible with mentoring. You can groan and whine that you haven’t been mentored, and you can place blame with the older generation. Or, you can resolve that when you are in a place of leadership, you will mentor and disciple those coming after you. If you can’t have the mentor you need, you can be the mentor someone else will need.
Across the globe, people are hurting, whether it’s in Nepal or Baltimore or next-door. When we suffer, we inevitably turn our eyes to heaven and ask with the Old Testament prophet, “How long, O Lord!?”
How glorious it is that, in the midst of our suffering and pain, the Bible assures us of three great promises!
Yet, one thing many of us know about love: It has let us down. Love has brought us to tears. Love has Indiana Jonesed our heart, ripping it out without even putting us under.
Love cures us and makes us sick, sometimes in the same look.
What is love? How do we get it? And how do we keep it?
To answer these questions, we need to first figure out what love is not. We need to remove some lies we believe about love to get down to the core of what love really is.
Boston Marathon Kiss: Mystery man’s wife comes forward with letter to runner
Barbara Tatge was running in her first ever Boston Marathon when she followed through on her daughter’s dare to kiss a random man as she passed through Wellesley. She did it, and then Paige Tatge began a quest to find the man in the photo when she reached out to the Townsman last week.
The mystery man’s wife was running the race for the first time as well, and in a letter to Tatge via the Townsman said that the attention the story has gotten—picked up by several national media outlets—has been fun. She and her husband would like to remain anonymous, though.
Woman in wheelchair wins a treadmill on ‘Price is Right’
Danielle Perez’s trip to “The Price is Right” looked like the dream scenario in an episode that aired Tuesday. She made it on stage and met Carey. She even won her pricing game, sending her home with a sauna and a treadmill.
Which would’ve been great, except that Perez has no legs and she uses a wheelchair.