by David Wentz | Mar 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
A woman rushed breathlessly up to me after one Sunday service and said, “Pastor, you’ve changed everything!” “What do you mean?” I asked, bewildered. “The offering used to be before the sermon, and today it was after!” For a long time it amazed me...
by David Wentz | Jan 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
“Use my tithe for anything but the pastor’s salary.” One of the counters found those words scrawled on an offering envelope one Sunday. He didn’t tell me whose envelope it was, and I didn’t ask. But it seemed pretty certain who it was pointed at. I was the only...
by David Wentz | Dec 14, 2022 | Christian Practice, Uncategorized
“If we are on a path that God created for us before we were born, why do we pray for special requests?” I received this question from a thoughtful new Christian. I answer as a pastor, not a theologian. And I share it here in case you might wonder the same thing....
by David Wentz | Nov 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
If right now you find yourself struggling with organized religion, know this: so did Jesus. – Facebook meme posted by The Weird Preacher, from an unknown source There has to be more to God’s idea of church than the bureaucratic institutions most of us know, and there...
by David Wentz | Mar 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
Go to Hilkiah the high priest and have him count the money the gatekeepers have collected from the people at the Lord’s temple. – 2 Kings 22:4 Some people might think money is not spiritual enough for a book about ministry. The fact is, as long as we are ministering...
by David Wentz | Jan 14, 2021 | Christian Practice, Church, God's Purpose, Uncategorized
Many Christians today are making major decisions based on the words of modern-day prophets. I highly value the New Testament gift of prophecy. But we can be misled when we apply Old Testament principles to church-age prophecy. Before Pentecost (Acts 2), prophets had...
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