by Josh Waltz | Nov 8, 2017 | A Pastor's Heart
“And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.” So ends the Bible’s opening chapter. All is well. In God’s own eyes, the new creation is “very good”—i.e., perfectly suited to human...
by Josh Waltz | Oct 30, 2017 | A Pastor's Heart
Every fall, we open the nomination process for new deacons and prepare to lose a few to sabbatical who have served out their full three-year term. Because deacons are defined and employed in such vastly different ways from one church to another, it seems helpful to...