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How to Have a Hard Conversation
by Doug Stevens To prepare for a difficult conversation … Tune your heart with Grace and Truth, always seek to re/build Trust. Assume the posture of Humility, unleash your capacity for Empathy.
A Post About Posting
by Doug Stevens A post on social media about an issue that carries any controversial connotation (and so many do these days, even if unintentionally) is almost always about more than the issue itself, and the comments provoked are evidence … Continue reading
Buzzwords
Buzzword: a fashionable word or phrase used frequently within a specific profession or field that often sounds technical or authoritative but loses its precise meaning through overuse. Some of us criticize the culture of victimization … because it stigmatizes and … Continue reading
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The Antidote to ‘Us Versus Them’
by Doug Stevens How do we move from “Us versus Them,” locked in suspicion, alienation and antagonism? To “Us and Them,” still kept separate as a way to manage the incompatibility, discomfort and conflict? And finally, if we care and … Continue reading
Starlight, Star Bright
Before we return to our regular Daily Catch rhythm, I want to make sure you receive something too good to miss. During our recent time away for rest and planning for the future of the Catch, Associate Pastor Wayne Bridegroom … Continue reading
True Worship
by Doug Stevens Just because we label it “worship” doesn’t mean it is. Let me tell you what my restless mind is thinking. I’m eager to tell you and tremble at the responsibility, shrinking back at the prospect of getting … Continue reading
Clique,. Club or Community
by Doug Stevens A clique is a small, closed group providing conditional acceptance and the promise of security for select insiders who are bonded by narrow interests and the expectation of conformity. A church that is a clique retreats from … Continue reading
Standing With ‘the Least of These’
by Wayne Bridegroom For decades we have lived in church circles that have defined success and pleasing God as church growth. How many times have I been to some kind of church conference and the first question between clergy has to … Continue reading
Diverse Is More
by Wayne Bridegroom There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28 Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or … Continue reading
‘I’ or ‘Us’?
by Wayne Bridegroom Here’s the short version: it was 1997 and I was observing 6 Laotian brothers pour a 10X12 slab of cement. It was as if the Holy Spirit hit me over the head with a 2X4 saying, “See, … Continue reading
