Messy Christianity

Small groups are where relationships are built.  Small groups are crucial to growth.  For many years Sunday School served this purpose, a new trend promoted home groups.  But, we live in a time when small groupings of people are discouraged.  Beyond Covid, we also live in a very busy society.  Trying to carve out more time to be a part of a group seems almost impossible.  But is it?  Can we still do small groups in today's world?  Is it important?

Habits can be good, habits can be bad.  Habits are hard to make, hard to keep, and easy to break.  So, what habits do we have?  Are there secrets to habit-forming and habit-keeping?

What makes up your life?  Everything that makes up your life?  What takes up your time?  What about your emotions and thoughts?  A good inventory check might be very revealing.

Resolutions.  Do you make them?  Do you break them?  Do you keep them?  Are there tools to help us over the coming year?  How many are too many?  We dig in on the whole concept of resolutions.  Get your mind right, and get ready for the new year!

Tomorrow is Christmas Day.  It's that time of year again.  Even after a tough year, this is a time to celebrate, to reflect, to be with family.  What makes Christmas so special?  It's our Christmas episode ... enjoy!

We are called to "go".  It is a Biblical mandate.  For years countless Christians have participated in local, domestic, and international missions.  Short term trips, extended trips, and even sent missionaries.  But, what do you do when the airlines don't make reservations?  When the countries require a quarantine?  Even local ministries have shut doors in order to protect.  What do you do?  How do you fulfill the mandate to "go", when going seems impossible?

Turn on the news any day of the week and you are sure to see chaos and depravity.  Things that were once wrong seem to be OK now.  Right is wrong and wrong is right.  Should God still bless America?  Is He still blessing America?

The Coronavirus has changed the way we do everything.  Will things ever return to the way they were?  Will church ever look the same?  Are things forever changed?  Is this all bad?  These are just a few of the questions we discussed this week.

Of all of the topics that we have covered, this one might be the most controversial of all.  Well, not really, but we did have some fun this week.  This episode does dive a little deeper than the original question.  Enjoy!

People are a collection of emotions, backgrounds, traditions, personalities, giftedness, talents, demographics, experiences, and of course opinions.  How in the world do we get along?  How do we cooperate with each other?  Relationships are indeed messy.