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Guest blog: Being the guy the guy counts on by Tracey Rouse

I have been Executive Pastor at Renovatus for all of six months and feel fairly unqualified at this point in my career to impart inspiring leadership lessons.   However, in racking my brain over what to blog about, I realized that what I do have is a lifetime of experience in following.  I also happen to [...] »

The Way to Purity

One of the things i do each day is read from Oswald Chambers' devotional, My Utmost for His Highest. This was the devotion today. It spoke profoundly to me, so i thought i would share it with you, as well.262011Those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart . . . . For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. Th... »

why are young ministers leaving the #ourCOG ? We are a group of "ill prospects" ( #LikeAMightyArmy , 13)

why are young ministers leaving the #ourCOG ? We are a group of "ill prospects" ( #LikeAMightyArmy , 13) »

Guest blog: Backroom Theology by Jonathan Simmons

Guest blog: Backroom Theology by Jonathan Simmons

I remember the first time I made a living wage from vocational ministry.  It was actually an internship in Knoxville, TN.  Ironically, most internships do not normally pay for all the blood, sweat and tears required for the role but this one did.  Regardless, it was all I had time for and I wasn’t earning [...] »