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Voices: Hospitality—open hearts, open hands, open homes

A way we as the church show the love of God to one another and to our community is by living with gospel-fueled hospitality.

04/12/2017 - By Marv Knox

Voices: Pence, propriety and devaluing half the American population

Suggesting men and women cannot share a professional meal borders on communicating men and women cannot be held responsible for their choices and actions when they are put in the same room together.

04/05/2017 - By Marv Knox

Voices: Who stands for life? A call to repentance

Both the conservative church and the progressive church in America have shown themselves to care more about political party lines than consistency with God’s revelation.

04/05/2017 - By Marv Knox

Voices: What’s in a name?

The contrast between the revered Barnabas and the reviled Ananias and Sapphira provides a morality tale for how Christians respond to need.

04/05/2017 - By Marv Knox

Voices: Return again to the well of God’s love

In moments of doubt and despair, our hearts must return to the truth that our identity is in Jesus. We are sons and daughters of the King, who are loved and with whom our Father is well-pleased.

03/29/2017 - By Marv Knox

Voices: The myth of secularism

Assuming things are dire when they really are going well sabotages our witness to the world and insults the work of the God who continues to add to our numbers daily.

03/22/2017 - By Marv Knox

Voices: When God turns “Wine Into Water”

If we will give up our thoughts and our ways that take us away from creation as God intended it, and if we will accept God’s thoughts and ways, God will make us new again.

03/22/2017 - By Marv Knox

Voices: May women know our churches are filled with ‘men on bicycles’

Every woman and girl should know the men in our congregations are “the men on bicycles”—protective, pure, faithful and courageous.

03/15/2017 - By Marv Knox

Voices: Keys to church revitalization, Part 1

What causes a congregation to seem negative during decline and exciting during revitalization? Ross Shelton, pastor of First Baptist Church in Brenham, offers some answers.

03/15/2017 - By Marv Knox

Voices: Faith doesn’t require perfection

Faith does not always lead us to victorious living or our best life now. Our better life is not promised here. What is promised here is joy, hope and love in the midst of our wandering.

03/15/2017 - By Marv Knox

Voices: If you have the Lord, you have everything

May the church cease to be known as anything other than the people of God’s presence.

03/15/2017 - By Marv Knox

Voices: There’s one in every crowd

Does God have a unique assignment for the contrarians in every church? Maybe they’re there to convict everyone else’s conscience.

03/08/2017 - By Marv Knox