A Word of Hope for the Leader in the Valley. "I was carried away by the Spirit of the Lord to a valley filled with bones. He led me all around the bones that covered the valley floor. They were scattered everywhere across the ground and were completely dried out. Then He asked me, 'Son of man, can these bones become living people again.'" Ezekiel 37:1-3, New Living Translation Any pastor who has served long enough in a particular church has found himself in a valley. Not a li

Joining Church... Disciple for Christ! There are two words in the church culture that get used quite often as if they mean the same thing and the confusing of the two is causing one of the biggest yet most silent crisis in the church, especially the African American church. Two words: member and disciple. We treat them the same and swap them out in conversations as if they are synonymous when in the reality of the kingdom of God the differences are about as far as the state o

Four lepers and a question every dying church must ask aloud. "Now there were four men with leprosy sitting near the entrance of the city gates. 'Why should we sit here waiting to die?' they asked each other. 'We will starve if we stay here, but with the famine in the city, we will starve if we go back there. So we might as well go out and surrender to the Aramean army. If they let us live, so much the better. But if they kill us, we would have died anyways.'" 2nd Kings 7:3-4