Dear Friends,

Year 2019 presented many challenges to our ministry at The Living Pulpit. In the middle of the year, our website crashed, and it took a team of professionals and volunteers to have the site …

by Susan Converse

The telephone rings, piercing the silence of the night.  You jump out of bed. Your heart is racing, and you pick up the phone.  The voice on the other end tells you that …

by Jimmy Arthur Atkins

The Holy Bible offers a treasure chest of case studies and examples of leadership—good and bad. While there are many secular definitions of leadership, I distinguish …

by Albrecht Classen

I would like to be courageous, but I am timid. I would like to be strong, but I am weak. I would like to be virtuous, but there are too many shortcomings and …

by Patty Christiena Willis

Many times I have heard people say, “The United States is a melting pot.” Those words have always been spoken with a positive facial expression.  What do they mean?  Why would I …

Joseph the Courageous Man: A Retelling of the Christmas Story from Joseph’s Point of View

by Olusola Adegbite

Joseph was entitled to a virgin wife according to the customs of his time and Mary was it. They …

by Jerry Reisig

As the terms “organic” and “natural,” have become increasingly watered down and Buddhist meditation has become a corporate means to increase worker productivity, simplicity—the deepening of spiritual connection while letting go of …

by Albrecht Classen

We Westerners live in a world that is swamped with stuff. We almost drown in things that surround us, whether it is in the pantry, the fridge, the closet, the garage, or the …

by Ruth Shaffer

I am grateful for having been born into a family with little.  We had powdered milk and government cheese. Remember the big blocks of government cheese?  The cheese that was supposed to …

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Neal D. Presa

Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived. New York, Harper Collins Publishers, 2011. $9.99. 202 pages.

Mars Hill Church (Grand Rapids, MI) pastor …

Compiled by Darla Turlington

Biblical Sources

Be strong and courageous; for you shall put this people in possession of the land that I swore to their ancestors to give them. Only be strong and very courageous, being careful …

Compiled by Darla Turlington

Biblical Sources

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth …