Winning Souls

Winning Souls

Every morning at 6:02 a.m., my alarm pierces through the quiet of my bedroom and rouses me from another night of much-needed rest. While it always takes me a moment to transition out of slumber, I quickly find myself making a mental inventory of all that awaits me...
Managing to Witness

Managing to Witness

Ken Brown is the manager of two Salvation Army Family Stores in Greensboro, North Carolina—and it is accepted that the main purpose of such stores across the territory is to provide funds to benefit the corps. These Greensboro stores, the main one located close to...

Coffee Anyone?

My father was born in 1928. By the time I came into the world in 1956 and became aware of some of his practices in 1963, he regularly enjoyed coffee with cream and sugar. A fair amount of sugar in each cup. One of the duties tasked to my sister and I was preparing...
Disciple-Making’s Biggest Obstacle

Disciple-Making’s Biggest Obstacle

I was wrong. Four years ago, I wrote that the biggest barrier to discipleship was busyness, but it’s not true now, and honestly, it doesn’t look like it was true then either. At the time, I quoted from Barna’s recently published “The State of Discipleship” study in...