Is Your Church Keeping You Too Busy?

As a longtime church staff member, I have been both overtly and much more subtly accused of being part of a modern church system which just keeps busy people even busier.  The local church, these folks would say, offers too many activities which fill our evenings and weekends and thereby take away from essential family…

Help! There are Pharisees in my Youth Group!

In another post, I dealt with the temptation to pull our children out of youth group due to the influence of non-Christian peers [Help! There are Pagans in my Youth Group!].  Thankfully, in a Biblically sound youth ministry, there are also many of our covenant children, growing in grace as young Christians.  These young people are…