FREE BOOK: Calling Out the People of God: Ezekiel’s Challenge for Today’s Church
Posted: February 27, 2024
We’d like to offer you a book. It’s challenging. It’s prophetic (based on the message of Ezekiel). And it’s now available for all website members. For those who prefer to… Read More
Review of Challenging Leaders — Graham Nicholls, ed.
Posted: July 26, 2023
Reviewed by Malcolm Cox I am grateful for my friend David Kaner recommending the book Challenging Leaders, edited by Graham Nicholls. I can’t recommend it enough. This book tackles the… Read More
What is a Cult? (Interview with Kyle Spears)
Posted: August 16, 2022
Click HERE for the interview on Bullying with Kyle Spears of Truth Trauma Theology.
What is Religious Bullying? (Interview with Kyle Spears)
Posted: August 16, 2022
Click HERE for the 2022 interview on Bullying with Kyle Spears of Truth Trauma Theology.
Q&A 1621—Touch not my anointed ones?
Posted: July 30, 2022
Does Psalm 105:15 (“Touch not my anointed ones, do any prophets no harm”) mean that we are never to criticize our leaders? When I try to bring something up, even… Read More
What know-it-alls don’t know, or the illusion of competence
Posted: June 28, 2022
Kate Fehlhaber is the editor in chief of Knowing Neurons and a PhD candidate in neuroscience at the University of California, Los Angeles. She lives in Los Angeles. Read complete article here.
What Can We Learn from the Jerusalem Council?
Posted: August 12, 2021
What Can We Learn from the Jerusalem Council? Reprinted from https://ca.thegospelcoalition.org/columns/ad-fontes/what-can-we-learn-from-the-jerusalem-council/ Paul Carter, July 27, 2020 The Jerusalem Council in Acts 15 provides a fascinating window into the way… Read More
The Emotionally Healthy Leader, by John Teal
Posted: February 22, 2020
The Emotionally Healthy Leader Last fall, I reluctantly agreed to take a class called Emotionally Healthy Spirituality. It was being offered by a couple in our congregation. As I read… Read More
The Best Non-Leadership Leadership Story
Posted: February 8, 2020
The Best Non-Leadership Leadership Story Matthew Dicks is a teacher, author, and award-winning storyteller. In this wonderfully funny TEDx Talk, titled “Speak Less-Expect More,” Matthew shares incredible insights on… Read More
Control, part 3
Posted: July 3, 2019
TRUST Rom 15:14—confident in church to handle issues of church. I myself am convinced, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with knowledge and competent… Read More
Control, part 2
Posted: July 3, 2019
4) Abuse of authority Leaders have authority, but not to create their own rules, or in the language of Jeremiah, “to rule by their own authority” (Jer 5:30-31). “Giving up… Read More
Control, part 1
Posted: July 3, 2019
Jesus called them together and said, “You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so… Read More
Elders, Evangelists, Deacons & Teachers
Posted: July 31, 2013
The following paper has been included in the collection as matter of historical interest. To see how my views have continued to develop, see the 2002 paper on Church Polity, and… Read More
