by Jessie Cruickshank | Jan 14, 2019 | Spiritual
Lately I have been asking people who are pastors and church planters – “Why do we gather? As a body and a people, why do we get together?” I get various answers, from building relationship and encouraging one another, to conversations about the corporate witness that...
by Jessie Cruickshank | Sep 27, 2018 | Leadership, Spiritual
The leadership development of Millennials is often more a discussion of struggle and disappointment than how-to techniques. I believe that this is due to a foundational miscommunication between Boomers/GenXers and Millennial regarding what it means to be a leader. ...
by Jessie Cruickshank | Aug 5, 2018 | Spiritual
There is common saying in Christianity where we are exhorted to have “Faith like a child”. This is held up as an ideal, stemming from Jesus’s admonition to the disciples in Luke 18:16 “Unless you have faith like one of these, you will never see the...
by Jessie Cruickshank | Jun 17, 2018 | Spiritual
The foundational and constitutional text for the church’s five-fold ministry is Ephesians 4:11-13. When considering the text of these verses, we often readily acknowledge and agree with the stated goal of ‘unity in our faith’ and ‘maturity in Christ.’ But...
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