Kids grow up awfully fast these days. It seems like one minute you are trying to encourage your child to go faster on his bicycle, to get up enough speed to stay balanced, and the next you are pleading with the same boy now at the wheel of a car, pleading with him to slow down and live. One minute you're urging a shy daughter to say hello to strangers, and the very next, you're trying to discourag...
2. Structure Slows Things Down
Mark 1:29-34
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Sid Burgess
Why is that today, we who call ourselves disciples of Christ, can sit so very still in church? Why is it that change is so hard to come by in the old mainstream churches, like the Presbyterian Church, USA? For the answer, I have turned to one of my favorite theologians, a Canadian named Douglas John Hall. In his excellent, new little book, WHY CHRISTIAN?, Hall writes that, slowly but surely, the N...
