Insights for Building - What wisdom tips do you have for small (growing) churches that are starting their first building program? What wisdom do you have specifically for the pastor to consider before starting and during the building process? Read the responses.

Beautiful Giving
Rev Tony Cooke

Gerda Weissmann Klein remarked, “Most people think the Holocaust camps were like snake pits – that people stepped on each other for survival.  It wasn’t like that at all.  There was kindness, support, understanding.  A childhood friend of mine, Ilse, once found a raspberry in the camp and carried it in her pocket all day to present to me that night on a leaf.  Those are the moments I want to remember.  People behaved nobly under unspeakable circumstances.”  Read the article.

“I’ve got one nerve left, and you’re on it.”  Have you ever been tempted to wear that T-shirt?  Two leaders in the Philippian church, Euodia and Syntyche (we’ve nicknamed them Edna and Cindy), had gotten on each others nerves, and the strife between them seems to have been threatening the unity of the entire church.  Paul knew that such discord often spreads to others, so he not only addressed these two ladies, but he gave powerful instructions to the rest of the church to enable them to walk free from offense—direct or borrowed.  These lessons instruct believers how to walk in peace and how to be a part of the solution—not part of the problem—when conflicts arise.  Click here to order.

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