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Don’t call your next pastor. Draft your next pastor.

Posted on May 1, 2013 by George Bullard — 2 Comments ↓

The pastor search process might be a whole lot more fun (or funny) if it was run like the National Football League draft. Why go through months—even years—of searching for the right pastor when you just need to be ready…

Naked church

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Julie Pennington-Russell — No Comments ↓

Dear Church: if you bring good news to your community you won’t need to inform your neighbors. They already know. If you don’t—well, chances are everybody knows but you. Let’s get down to it: a church is either welcome relief…

Tagged with: Baptist, Christianity, Church, community, congregation, God, Jesus, social media
Posted in Blog Posts, Humor, Leadership, Ministry, Technology & Church

Bill and Ted’s excellent Lenten journey

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Brandon Hudson — No Comments ↓

Our church partners with a rehabilitation organization in town with whom I occasionally have the opportunity to worship. At the beginning of all of their worship experiences, they sing a song that repeats this same opening line – “I woke…

Tagged with: Bill and Ted, Christopher Moore, Excellent Adventure, hope, journey, Lamb, Lent
Posted in Blog Posts, Humor, Media & Arts, Movies, Theology, Worship

Funeral food

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Mark Wingfield — 1 Comment ↓

There are some rules everyone needs to understand about death and funerals. For starters, funerals call for a certain kind of food. There had better be chocolate cake involved, or the family is going to be left to scramble on…

Tagged with: comfort, community, food, Funeral, Grief
Posted in Death, Grief, Humor, Uncategorized

Raising a lover – not a fighter

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Natalie Aho — No Comments ↓

Chances are you haven’t met my almost five-year-old, except for those obligatory readers from my extended family (hi mom!). I happen to think he’s amazingly brillant and brilliantly amazing. I’m sure this is why he has a healthy self-esteem. Every…

Tagged with: autism, baby, Children, Church, disabilities, Little Tree Preschool, parenting, potty training, pregnancy
Posted in Health & Wholeness, Humor, Parenting

Seven Reasons Why Christians Should Celebrate ‘Halloween’

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Alan Rudnick — 5 Comments ↓

Is celebrating a holiday that honors ghouls, demons, ghosts, and everything that goes bump in the night dangerous or even evil? Somewhere, in the halls of history, Halloween or All Hallows Eve, got hijacked. What started as a day to…

Tagged with: All Saints Day, Halloween
Posted in Humor, Spiritual Formation, Theology

The best pens (yes, pens) at CBF’s assembly

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Jeff Brumley — 4 Comments ↓

I’m just going to get right to the point: one of the best things about this CBF General Assembly, my first, has been the pens given away by the vendors. I knew coming into Fort Worth that this would be…

Tagged with: Pens
Posted in Humor, Media & Arts, Technology & Church