The Rev. Dr. Sharon Watkins - Day1 Conversations with Peter Wallace
The Rev. Dr. Sharon Watkins, General Minister and President of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), talks with Day1 host Peter Wallace about the distinctives of the Disciples denomination, the...
View ArticleThe Right Rev. Keith B. Whitmore - Day1 Conversations with Peter Wallace
Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Atlanta, The Right Rev. Keith B. Whitmore, talks about the work of an assisting bishop, his work as a military chaplain, the work of consulting churches on the...
View ArticleYou Have a Call From God (Part 2) - The Rev. William Quick on Day1 Sermon...
The Rev. William Quick, Guest Preacher. "Our message today, is one that is very captivating in history, that of an abandoned who would lead his people to become a great nation." Join us today as we...
View ArticleShackles That Won't Shrink!
In June of last year, less than five miles from where I live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a crowd of slightly more than two thousand people shouted, jostled and restlessly stood in line to receive what...
View ArticleWhere You Never Expected to Be - Thomas Long on 30 Good Minutes
Dr. Thomas Long, Professor of Preaching at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, shares a message called "Where You Never Expected to Be." He says God calls us to tasks we never imagined...
View Article30 Good Minutes - A Conversation with Thomas Long
Hosts Daniel Pawlus and Lydia Talbot in conversation with Thomas Long on the topic of our calling. He says the call to serve God is always costly, but never ourtside the range of our abilities. God...
View ArticleDr. Thomas Lane Butts: Mission Accomplished?
It has become fashionable for businesses - and churches - to write mission statements. A mission statement is a brief summary of the meaning and purpose of the organization for which it is written. It...
View ArticleBishop Will Willimon: A Faith Based on the Testimony of Women
When women went to the tomb in darkness, on the first Easter morning, they were disheartened by the thought of a large stone placed by the soldiers before the entrance of the tomb. To their surprise,...
View ArticleOn Chocolate Chip Cookies and Dirty Water and Being Church in a Shrinking World
The Rev. Dr. Rob Nash is the Global Mission Coordinator for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, headquartered in Atlanta, GA. Not too terribly long ago I made my way up to a first church in a rural...
View ArticleLadies and Gentlemen, Start Your Engines
"Ladies and Gentlemen, start your engines." No, you haven't tuned into the wrong station. This is not the radio broadcast of the Indianapolis 500, but this preacher has begun today with the phrase that...
View ArticleNo Power Shortage Here
This lesson contains some of the most familiar, some of the most comforting and some of the most astounding verses in scripture. But it also contains some of the most troubling, at least for many...
View ArticleIncrease Our Faith
The disciples make their plea to the Lord: "Increase our faith." There is so much to do. There are so many problems. "Increase our faith." It always helps in interpreting scripture to look at what...
View ArticleThe Nearness of the Kingdom
This is no way to gain a following, Jesus. This is no locker room pep-talk, no inspirational speech for sending out followers into a plentiful harvest. Sheep in the midst of wolves! Who wants to play...
View ArticleChanging Your Mind, Bearing Fruit
"Unless you repent, you will likewise perish." Did you expect that coming over the radio waves at you today? But there it is, a statement, an admonition, an exhortation straight from Jesus' lips, from...
View ArticleWhat Will We Choose?
There I was in the very wilderness where, by tradition, Jesus had been tempted by the devil. It was arid, it was isolated, it was frightening in so many ways. And there I was sitting in that wilderness...
View ArticleOur Spiritual Bottom Line
There is always speculation, inside the faith and beyond it, about how it 's all going to end. Some see a great Armageddon, a cosmic battle between good and evil, with the evil forces winning. Others...
View ArticleHeralds of Hope
A few years ago I was on a mission with a company of colleagues in Estonia. We were housed in Tallin on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea. One of the sites that caught our attention was near our...
View ArticleYours Are the Hands
Back in 1934, William Foxwell Albright, dean of American archaeologists, dug up ancient Bethel, a village about twelve miles north of Jerusalem. He found a thriving Middle Bronze Age city, with a...
View ArticleLiving, Loving and Giving
Walker Percy, the author, faced his own death and found it hilarious to be alive. While not many of us are ex-suicides, we can identify with Percy. He writes: "The ex-suicide leaves for work at eight...
View ArticleChrist and His Celebrity
I wonder if you could admit with me that many of us are closet celebrity watchers. Yes, we do look at the magazines with big, gaudy, color pictures in the supermarkets, even if we don't buy them. We do...
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