Being Church In a War Zone
By Bob Kaylor Driving through the countryside of the Normandy region of France feels a bit like entering the world of an animated Walt Disney film. The green fields, bushy hedgerows, lolling cows, and medieval-period stone houses, churches, and barns call to mind many...
God In Our Secret Moments
By B.J. Funk - “It is always just possible that Jesus Christ meant what he said when he told us to seek the secret place and to close the door,” C.S. Lewis observed in God in the Dock. In the Beatitudes, Jesus said, “And when you pray, you are not to be like the...
God blessed the broken road
By B.J. Funk–As we trip over the unevenness of the road, we finally realize we are incapable of walking it without his help. As we step across the rough cracks, we may try to jump over them, smooth them, or ignore them, but eventually, we realize that this particular broken road is what God is using to bring us to him.
Leading the way in foster care: Mt. Bethel responds to the call
By Wayne Stoltz — There is a foster care crisis in the United States. Children are taken into foster care for three main reasons: deprivation, abandonment, and abuse. Cases range from homeless children whose parents have lost their jobs to two brothers whose mother committed suicide and an infant with numerous broken bones going straight from the hospital into foster care. These stories are played out throughout the nation.
Archive: Good News moves ministry to Houston area
Archive: Good News moves ministry to Houston area After 38 years of being headquartered in Wilmore, Kentucky, the Board of Directors of Good News announced that it will be moving its advocacy ministry and publishing endeavor to the Houston area. The evangelical...
Different location, same mission
By Rob Renfroe — If you haven’t heard yet, Good News is moving its offices. What’s not changing is our historic, God-given mission to reform and renew the United Methodist Church. That has always been the purpose of Good News. And it always will be.
Permission to speak freely
By Anne Jackson–In May 2008, I posted a question on my blog that simply asked, “What’s one thing you feel you can’t say in the church?”
Your Life, God’s Gift
By Rob Renfroe — Here’s what I’ve concluded. Life is a trust. Life is a gift that God places in our care. We have been entrusted with this most precious thing called a human life. And like any gift, it can be wasted or squandered. Or it can be used for the purpose it was intended.
