by Whaid Rose I love good bread. So when the CT Daily Briefing arrived at my inbox with an article titled “Ministry of Bread,” by Rachel Pfeiffer, I was naturally curious. It turned out to be a meaningful read. It is about how bread is ingrained in Ukrainian life and culture and how “As the […]

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by Whaid Rose Church leaders face the ongoing challenge of how to measure ministry impact. We want our efforts to count for something. However, when we measure success by the wrong standards, a problem arises. By secular standards, ministry success is usually about the number of people in attendance (bodies), financial resources (bucks), and facilities’ […]

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by Whaid Rose The history of the world has turned on ideas. From those of ancient philosophy to modern science, and from the American experiment to global politics, ideas have shaped the course of world history — with intended and unintended consequences. Yet none has more positively impacted human history than the idea of the […]

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Genesis and Revelation are more than mere bookends to the Bible. Their correlation is fascinating! One tells us how everything got started; the other, how everything will end. The garden with the forbidden tree corresponds to the city with the tree in its midst, whose leaves are for the healing of the nations. The nations […]

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The important business of spiritual accountability is a personal commitment to account to others for our actions.

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I wasn’t prepared for this statement: “Moses was an amazing leader who never reached his redemptive potential.” I was half asleep, listening to religious TV, when this comment jolted me fully awake. No way, I thought. Put that on some other Bible character, not Moses. I immediately thought of all the virtues ascribed to Moses […]

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In that epic encounter between Jesus and Nicodemus in John 3 about what it means to be born again, Jesus explained, “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit” (v. 6). Every person on the planet has been born of the flesh, but the […]

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And how grateful we are to Pastor Jack, to Dr. Stanley, and to Tim Keller, for their example, for finishing with their torch still lit, reminding us that doing so is well within our reach.

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Coronations don’t happen often, and they remind us that ultimately, it is God who sets up kings and removes them (Daniel 2:21).

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Yes, the struggle is real! There’s a battle going on. Let’s raise awareness, fueled by the good news that Jesus is onto this!

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We are a society in trauma, in desperate need of the healing Jesus offers. We read in John 5:6: “When Jesus saw [the man] lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be made well? ‘” John’s parenthetical note in verse 5 that […]

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The sign beneath the broken clock reads: Don’t blame the hand — the problem is much deeper. Likewise, the brokenness we lament in today’s world is symptomatic of a much deeper problem, captured succinctly in this statement: “At the heart of the human problem is the problem of the human heart.” It’s true, for we […]

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