A new job! A new home! A new start in a new place! I experienced all of these wonderful and exciting things recently and it has been a tremendous blessing. But like all major changes, I have experienced both expected and unexpected stresses. But because I knew this transition was coming, I had been working on a strategy to prepare for this transition for more than a year. And thank God, because I needed the extra financial padding that I had included in the plan for those une

There was a time in Christianity when there was a clear divide between the professional clergy and the laity -- the priests and the people. The prevailing paradigm was that the people gave their money in the offering on Sunday, and then the talented and God-ordained ministers did the work of preaching the Gospel. Of course, this idea was utterly unbiblical. The New Testament makes it clear that we are all ministers before God: But you are a chosen generation, a royal priestho