by Thomas McDaniels | Nov 1, 2022 | Blog, CHRISTIANITY, Church Life, religion, Spiritual, Spiritual Growth, SPIRITUALITY
Have you ever played tag? While playing tag, there are two ways to behave — evade or pursue. The tagger seeks out a pursuant, runs them down, and touches them. The touched person shifts from the evader to the pursuer. Does the tag game resemble the way we do...
by Thomas McDaniels | Aug 5, 2022 | Blog, CHRISTIANITY, Church Life, GOD, religion, Spiritual, Spiritual Growth, SPIRITUALITY
5 Cultural Shifts” is written by Mark Clark. Mark is the Senior Pastor of Bayside Church in Sacramento, a close friend, and co-creator of our courses The Art of Better Reaching and The Art of Better Preaching. The world is changing. The cultural shifts are...
by Thomas McDaniels | Jul 8, 2022 | Blog, church culture, Church Life, Faith, religion, Spiritual, Spiritual Growth, SPIRITUALITY
Taking a spiritual gifts test is always exciting and filled with curiosity. As a matter of fact I believe that taking a Spiritual Gifts Test can rekindle your spiritual life. Now with 35-plus years as a Christian, the excitement is tempered, but God always has a card...
by Thomas McDaniels | Jun 17, 2022 | Blog, Church Life, Faith, religion, Spiritual, Spiritual Growth, SPIRITUALITY
A Parable In the early morning, just as the sun begins to brighten the sky, a man moves silently and methodically through a vineyard. He has work to do and does it with determination and precision. He pauses to sharpen a pruning knife because he knows he will be most...
by Thomas McDaniels | Jun 14, 2022 | Blog, church culture, Church Life, Faith, religion, Spiritual, Spiritual Growth, SPIRITUALITY
Have you ever been tagged with a negative label? The truth is it has happened to everyone at one point in their life, but few people know how to handle it when other people lie or mislabel them. Was your label an absolute nasty lie about who you truly are? Maybe you...
by Thomas McDaniels | Jun 7, 2022 | Blog, CHURCH, church culture, Church Life, Maturity, religion, Spiritual, Spiritual Growth, SPIRITUALITY
Remember the old fairy tale about the Pied Piper who charmed away all the rats in town? It’s a timeless classic that shows us all why we must pay attention to what matters or pay the price. When the faithless burghers refused to pay him what they had...
