IMB Policies on Standard of Conduct
I have a few problems with the new guidelines for IMB trustees. First, there is a clear implication that all public disagreement is inherently harmful. Disagreement isn’t harmful. Harm comes in how we handle disagreement. It is possible to respect and love the person while believing you are right and they are wrong. It appears [...]
Balance of Work and Family
This Lifeway article, Number 9: Balance of Work and Family, is the second in a series on a survey they have done:The Top 10 Issues Facing Today’s Family. The article and comments at Lifeway seem to me to miss the point: the key issue is Balance, not two-income families. Some working moms and dads are [...]
IMB: Encouraging Trustees to Lie
I learned the value of lying from church. While in grade school, we were all encouraged to give to the church through Sunday school. I remember a little offering envelope with different boxes to check: Did you study your lesson? Read your Bible? I don’t remember what else we were being encouraged to do, I [...]
Stresses in Today’s Families
This Lifeway article, Number 10: Materialism, is the first in a series on a survey they have done:The Top 10 Issues Facing Today’s Family. I think many of us consider “peer pressure” as the sole province of middle-schoolers. Wrong. Adults are just as susceptible; we just are better at justifying our materialism. We don’t “keep [...]
Equity and Balance
Scott Haltzman has a good article posted at GrowthTrac: Making Marriage your Hobby. But when wives who have been married a few years tell me about problems in their marriage, their most common complaint is that they don’t feel emotionally connected to their companion. They feel lonely in their own homes. The guys I’m treating, [...]
IMB: What I’ve Learned
In the spirit of Rick Thompson (resolutions i am making coming out of our last IMB meeting), Wade Burlson (Ten Terrific Things Tied To Tampa), and Kiki Cherry (10 Things I learned in Quebec), I have been in a reflective mode. Below are my thoughts on the past few weeks of IMB controversy. 1. I [...]
Developmentally Delayed Policy
From the BPNews: (International Mission Board) Trustees also developed and adopted a formal document explaining trustee responsibilities and relationships. “individual IMB trustees must refrain from public criticism of board-approved actions…. Freedom of expression must give way to the imperative that the work of the Kingdom not be placed at risk by publicly airing differences within [...]
Cell Phones and Families
The Blonde and I have a totally cellular family: no land line! I have five phones on a family plan; unlimited phone to phone, unlimited nights and weekends, and rollover minutes. Even with three girls, I have minutes running out my ears. Text messaging almost became a problem; Cingular charges for incoming as well as [...]
A Sad Day for the IMB
I haven’t posted anything for a few days on either of my blogs; life sometimes gets in the way of the best laid plans. If you haven’t, yet, go and read Wade Burleson’s Grace and Truth to You and Marty Duren’s SBC Outpost. Micah Fries speaks for many as he shares his feelings about what [...]
Treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
In yesterday’s comments, a reader asked, I know OCD is irrational, and cannot be “cured†with a theology lesson, but wouldn’t it help to encourage someone with good, solid, Biblical teaching? Good question. Good enough for it’s own (short) post. The key to understanding the difference between OCD and doubt is that, with OCD, the [...]
