God is the author of this ministry.
It’s Christian culturally required that we assert, “this ministry belongs to God”. Who can argue with that? When you say, “This ministry belongs to God,” I don’t have to believe […]
Author Archives: Al Purvis
I’m An Avid Book Needer
I’m driven to read and I’m drowning in a sea of books. Thanks to Kindle, nobody can see my book purchases piling up. I am better than ever at […]
Nobody to Blame but Me
Preachers deserving a pulpit and singers deserving the stage can be feeling the same sense of entitlement as the sappy teenager who thinks he should get paid for waking up […]
Platform This Week
The idea of PLATFORM did not begin as a plan to move us forward, but as a way to describe what we are already doing, that is working well. What […]
EXTRAORDINARY DISCIPLES
The new nine inch Mac computer sat on a spotlit table. Steve Jobs appeared beside it on the stage of a packed auditorium. He stuck in a floppy disk and […]
The Heart of a Hero
We are inundated with heroes. Superman, Batman, Ironman, Spiderman… and they all have one story: an arch villain threatens the people with inconceivable evil, a mild-mannered nobody discovers extraordinary abilities […]
Everyone is a Successor
There was no retirement for Moses, Joshua, David, Paul, Lester Sumerall: they went straight to heaven the day they finished their work. On Joshua’s last day he gathered the elders […]
Brothers Beget Cousins
A River between you and me can become a border between our children. Phinehas is a cool Bible character. He was a pastor’s kid, and good at dealing with any […]
Support Your Local Levite
As a great fairy tale ends with “And they all lived happily ever after,” a great Bible story ends with, “Not a word failed of any good thing which the […]
Levites in Overalls
A missionary once told me, “I believe God wants me to pack up and return home.” I asked him if there was a particular struggle he was facing and he […]
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