Better and scarier than a program fix
In Static, Ron Martoia pushes us to reconsider words like gospel, repentance, and salvation in light of the biblical data. “We think we know what it means so we apply that assumption to
Darryl Dash
I'm a grateful husband, father, oupa, and pastor of Grace Fellowship Church East Toronto. I love learning, writing, and encouraging. I'm on a lifelong quest to become a humble, gracious old man.
Ron Martoia is blogging
Don’t know how I missed this. Ron Martoia, author of Static, is blogging. More to come on Static later today.
What God Has Always Wanted
In her excellent book on children’s ministry, Ivy Beckwith writes about some of the mistakes we make in teaching the Bible to kids:
When we use the Bible with children simply to
Preaching that we are part of this story
One of the great responsibilities of a preacher is to help congregations…catch a glimpse of what an adventure it is in our little times and little places, to be part of this
Pastors complaining about congregations
From Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together:
A pastor should not complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in