by Gregg Wooding | Aug 4, 2021 | Encouragement
I’ll never forget the quiet of the church building on my first day as pastor. I had previously served on a large church staff with many action-packed weekly ministries. The building was a beehive of activity. But in my new role as pastor of a small church, it was a...
by Gregg Wooding | Jul 23, 2021 | Encouragement
I recently heard of a church that asked one of their band members to stop playing with the worship team. Why did they ask him to leave? It wasn’t because he was absent from practice times—he wasn’t. It wasn’t because his base guitar skills were declining. They...
by Gregg Wooding | Jun 9, 2021 | Encouragement
Remember when social media was invented, and its founders promised it would bring the world together? That hasn’t exactly happened, has it? As Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse writes in his book “Them: Why We Hate Each Other—And How to Heal,” “More technology makes the...
by Gregg Wooding | May 17, 2021 | Encouragement
Nobody who bears the name of Christ is exempt from the Bible’s command toward thoughtful speech. In the rush to speak up, in our imperfect longings for justice, we are tempted to do just the opposite: to be slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to anger. Being...
by Gregg Wooding | Apr 28, 2021 | Encouragement
Our culture is no stranger to major leadership failures in church, in ministry life, and in the marketplace. Sometimes these failures are surprising, and we ask ourselves, “How could this happen?” But most of the time, if you know the leader and the culture he or she...
