Blog tagged as Mission
There is a lot of talk of strategy these days and we will undoubtedly hear more about this in the time to come. Maybe it therefore is good to remind ourselves, that strategies are not the main thing. They are meant to help us to do and to achieve the main thing – that is what makes strategies import...
Doing The Salvation Army the Barnes & Nobles Way
In 2018 a columnist in the New Your Times expressed concerns over the development in Barnes & Nobles, the largest chain of bookstores in the US. He found it ‘depressing to imagine that more than 600 Barnes & Noble stores might si...
She had already made quite an impression on me during the worship service, and now, during the coffee afterwards she approached me for a talk. I hesitate to guess a woman’s age, but she was not, by any stretch of imagination neither young nor middle aged. And yet so full of life and spiritual vitali...
Yesterday I found myself in a bar. Well, truth be told, I had consciously walked into the bar, looking for something I could not find anywhere else. My nerves were in shambles and as I sat down at the bar (in the bar) I gave in to the urge for a strong drink. I knew I shouldn’t, and even the bartend...
I am seriously beginning to doubt whether I believe in God.
Airing such doubt probably is not good career advice for a Salvation Army officer - but as I strongly oppose joining those two words (officer and career) and believe an ‘officer career’ is an oxymoron, I need not to worry on that accou...