Mike Slaughter

Carolyn and I recently left for a month-long summer retreat at our mountain cabin. As is my usual habit, I brought with me a stack of books to catch up on some reading. Right now I am reading Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again by New York Times best-selling author and popular blogger Rachel Held

It has been almost a year since I transitioned out of local church ministry where I had served in some capacity for 45 years. The last 38 of those years had been as lead pastor at Ginghamsburg Church. Change is inevitable. I am writing this while preparing to organize a group meeting in our home

Your picture of God determines how you perceive yourself and others. Many of us have a picture of God other than the merciful Father who “demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). Bad theology through the millennia has created images of cultural deities