Table of Contents
1 Start to Finish
2 Help Wanted
3 What's Your Spiritual Temperature?
4 Play Nice
5 Behaving outside the Box
6 Aging Grace, How Sweet the Sound
7 Easy Won't Do It
8 Feed Your Ox
9 Not the Response You Were Looking For?
10 Tradition vs. Change
11 Measures of Success
12 Back Off!
13 Empowering or Enabling?
14 Hard of Hearing?
15 Enticements
16 Needy or Just Greedy?
17 No Spiritual Bypasses
18 Who Was That Unmasked Man?
19 Something in Your Eye?
20 Got Milk? (Tsk, Tsk)
21 Hole-Hearted Devotion
22 Do You Hear What I Hear?
23 Future Shock Absorbers
24 Running, but Which Way?
25 Give It Up!
26 (Very) Small-Group Ministry
27 What's Your Number?
28 No Excuse
29 Who You Gonna Call?
30 What Would Jesus Tweet?
31 Extended Family
32 Welcome to Our Church. Watch Your Back
33 Weight Problems
34 Greetings
35 Membership Dues
36 Competitive Suffering
37 Complaining vs. Problem-Solving
38 Volume Control
39 Maybe God Will Hear
40 Not Speaking the Same Language?
41 Stomach Trouble
42 Drawing the Line
43 Bond Like a Girl
44 Wielding vs. Yielding
45 To Each His Own?
46 Honest to God
47 A Nice Place to Visit, But …
48 Make That Call
49 Breaking Up Ain't Hard to Do
50 Better Hopes and Gardens
51 Welcome to the Priesthood
52 No Need to Show Your ID
53 Don't Just Stand There
54 Look Both Ways
55 Think Small
56 Tend to Your Own Business
57 Get Lost
58 Continuous Attention to God … Partially
59 Pride You Can Be Proud Of
60 Genuine Service
61 Your Hospitality
62 Biblical Illiteracy
63 Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
64 Spotlight on Giving
65 Make Time
66 Don't Let Your Conscience Be Your Only Guide
67 Limited Time Offer! Act Now!
68 Neither New nor Improved
69 Act Your Age
70 The Big Finish
71 Joyful Noisemakers
72 The Choice Is Yours
73 The Company You Keep
74 In Case of Emergency
75 Everyone's a Critic
76 The Great Debate
77 Quality vs. Quantity
78 The Personal Touch
79 Ever Ready
80 Just Let It Go
81 Those People
82 Temporal Speed Bumps
83 "No, Thanks. I'll Just Watch."
84 Spiritual Ghosting
85 Lighten Up … Seriously!
86 It's Your Serve
87 Who Saw That Coming?
88 Truth Be Told …
89 Distractions and Diversions
90 Redacting Scripture
Notes