Recently, I was reading an article on Reverend Pete Phillips who is the director of the Codec Research Centre for Digital Theology at Durham University in the UK.  In this article he discusses an experience he had ten years ago at the Durham Cathedral. In 2008 Phillips arrived in Durham and was removed from the city’s cathedral for reading the Bible on his mobile phone while in the pews.  Phones were not allowed in the holy place, and the individual who eventually escorted him out did not believe that Phillips was using his phone for worship. Since then Durham Cathedral’s phone policies have drastically changed ...

Over the past year one of the most re-occurring questions I have been receiving from women is “how do I pursue my call to leadership in the Church?”  Maybe it’s becoming a small group leader; or a ministry team leader; or a member of the Church leadership team in making decisions and helping build the Church.  Regardless of what role and level of leadership you are pursuing in this post today, I want to address five steps that will begin to help you in your journey of stepping into the areas of leadership you are led to pursue in your Church. Before ...

One of my favorite verses is found in Acts 13:22, it says:After removing Saul, he made David their king. God testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.’ Every time I read this verse in Acts 13:22, I am almost immediately reminded of the verse in 1 Samuel 16:7 when God quickly stops Samuel from anointing Eliab (David’s older brother) and says,“Do not consider his appearance or his height […] The LORD does not look at ...