Michael Goetz

Our family has spent countless hours at a ski resort every winter. Each year, the resort issues each of us a new picture ID card that serves as the lift pass. In the spring, we tend to pack our ski gear away along with the pass tucked into…

Thomas Rainer passionately declared that “the vast majority of pastors with whom our team communicates are saying they are considering quitting their churches. It is a trend I have not seen in my lifetime.”¹ Rainer then shares…

As a 15-year-old student on a Christian school campus, I was invited to be part of a team led by two teachers¹ from SOY Ministries. This name often elicits chuckles from those familiar with my community of faith, known for using…

In Liverpool, Pennsylvania, near the Susquehanna River, lies a little cemetery. One wet, gray afternoon, I was there as a new pastor to say a few words in memory of a church member’s infant daughter. The baby had been just a few days old,…

Foundations just do not get the attention they deserve. Really, upon them rests the weight and stability of every piece of the building above them. But those who dwell in or visit structures will rarely be overheard complimenting the foundation…

As a campus, we couldn’t let this superlative go. It’s the second word of several powerful lines, and it drew us in.

“The greatest [emphasis mine] victories to the church of Christ or to the individual Christian are not those…

Every week preachers become the little boy on the hillside who sat in the multitude listenng to Jesus and was willing to give his two fish and five rolls into the hands of the Master. Haddon Robinson closes his book Biblical Preaching…