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TEAMWORK In his book, What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, Malcolm Gladwell writes, “But the link between, say, IQ and job performance is distinctly underwhelming. On a scale where 0.1 or below means virtually no correlation and 0.7 or above implies a strong correlation (your height, for example,…

JERUSALEM (Nov. 9) -Israeli police rushed into one of Christianity's holiest churches Sunday and arrested two clergyman after an argument between monks erupted into a brawl next to the site of Jesus' tomb. The clash between Armenian and Greek Orthodox monks broke out in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher,…

DIVISION In late December, the City Council of Murfreesboro, Tennessee voted to reinstall a memorial to the victims of September 11, 2001, which had been built by local firefighters and set up outside a city fire hall. The memorial which resembled the World Trade Center’s twin towers and included the…

Worship Churches used to split over doctrine, but not anymore. Today there is more controversy over worship practices than beliefs. Some things about worship, the Scripture makes crystal clear, "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." (John 4:24) Those two key words:…

Pentecost “And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.” Acts 2:1 (KJV) The independent commission investigating the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack reported that the rescue efforts were hampered by a "Rivalry between New York's police and fire departments."…

One of the first public acts of our new president was his appearance at the National Prayer Breakfast just a few weeks ago. While other less conservative politicians have seemed uncomfortable in such arenas, President Obama seems to be right at home. He used the occasion to declare that one’s faith should…

Let the Walls Come Down On August 15, 1999, I felt a sense of history as I participated in worshiping our Lord with the members of New Hope Baptist Church in Lake Village, Arkansas. In 1850, racial tension ripped apart Baptists at the Mason-Dixon line. Southern Baptist believed missionaries could own…

PREJUDICE In the fictional Star Trek universe, the relationship between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire paralleled the real world relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union during the cold war era. Fear, lack of trust, and hate characterized the association. In…

COOPERATION David Letterman recently quipped, “People say New Yorkers can’t get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine. —Reader’s Digest, Sept 2003, p. 61 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson People who normally…

CONFLICT Fights and quarrels are deeply rooted in our human nature. Every now and then, I stick my head into the preschool room and watch our little one's play during Sunday School. One minute, two children will be sitting next to one another, content with their toys. The next, one of them will be trying…

Charles Williams once observed, not one mind in a thousand can be trusted to state accurately what ones opponent says, much less what he thinks. Shelley, B. L. (1995). Church history in plain language (Updated 2nd ed.) (209). Dallas, Tex.: Word Pub.

Prayer breaks down walls WW2; Hitler; Berlin Wall; Division; Protection; Prayer; Pray; Revival; Peace; Hate; Freedom; Free; After World War II, Berlin—the capital of Germany and headquarters of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich—was overseen by the four Allied nations that had united to defeat Hitler: America,…

I believe that the real difference in the American church is not between conservatives and liberals, fundamentalists and charismatics, nor between Republicans and Democrats. The real difference is between the aware and the unaware. When somebody is aware of that love—the same love that the Father has…