Posts by "Keith McWhorter"
Back to School, Parents Beware!
Most students start the new school year within the next week or so. Even we home-schoolers are gearing up and warning our kids they are going to have to start getting up a bit earlier! A few private schools around here are already `rank`ing. Boy, summers seem to get shorter each year.
Remembering a Good Man
He was a Deacon who served in the church my Dad pastored. He was my high school Sunday School Teacher. And he was my wife's Dad.
Trans-Gendered Church
These days, it seems gender dysphoria (as it is still labeled in the DSM of psychiatry / psychology) is everywhere.
Of Sin, Justice and Remorse
In the oft forgotten Bible Book of Numbers, God says to His people, "Be sure your sins will find you out."
Leaving a Church Well (Post #4)
At the end of God's book, the angel escorting the Apostle John through his apocalyptic vision says, "Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb" (Revelation 21:9). Just a few verses later the Bride of Christ is described as "those who are written in the Lamb's book of life." And a few verses after that, "His servants" who will "see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads."
Leaving a Church Well (Post #3)
Earl Blackburn's little workbook Jesus Loves the Church and So Should You is worthy of every church member reading and working through. I could see great benefit to small groups studying this material together, as well as incorporating some of it into a membership class.
Leaving a Church Well (Post #2)
Last post, we heard good reasons someone might leave a local church. These were taken from Earl Blackburn's book Jesus Loves the Church and So Should You.
Leaving a Church Well (Post #1)
While it might seem odd for a Pastor to write a blog titled "Leaving a Church Well," I for one think the subject has been ignored long enough! Sadly, I have seen too many members (now former members) of the church I pastor leave poorly. Even those who have said they were trying to leave the right way seemed to have butchered it somehow. It's saddening and sometimes maddening.
Faithful
A decade or more ago, I swore I would never read another book on leadership. As an undergraduate I readsomany I thought my head would explode. Then, as an Officer in the Marine Corps I read even more to the point of insanity! I was sick of reading about it. I just wanted to do it. So I swore off leadership books.
Before Posting to Social Media . . .
I've been listening every week for a few months now to podcasts from 9Marks and Capitol Hill Baptist Church. They are a real blessing, especially in helping Pastors and Leaders think biblically about all things "church." The most recent episode, for example, was titled "How to Leave Your Church Well." Boy, is that ever needed in the church of America! I'll probably have more to write on that topic in weeks ahead, but for now, I want to share some lessons from the podcast of several weeks ago.