by Rebekah Binkley Montgomery | May 17, 2023 | Good Reads
My mother celebrated Easter in a big way. She could find parallels to the events of Easter at every turn. As soon as new Spring fabrics arrived, Mom would buy a bolt. During dark winter days, she sewed dresses and shirts for all 8 of her children and herself. While it...
by Rebekah Binkley Montgomery | May 23, 2020 | Good Reads
It may not be inclusive or politically correct, but the unabashed aim of The Grove Church in Peoria, IL, is to attract one hitherto unreached demographic: men. Inspired by David Murrow’s Why Men Hate Going To Church, Murrow and Pastor Mark Doebler freely admit they...
by Rebekah Binkley Montgomery | May 23, 2020 | Good Reads
You know him. He’s home reading the paper while his wife and children fill a church pew. When the pastor asks for prayer requests, his wife raises her hand and murmurs, “Unspoken.” But everyone knows. She’s been praying their entire marriage for her husband to come to...
by Rebekah Binkley Montgomery | May 23, 2020 | Good Reads
Many people have a hunch that the hands on the cosmic clock are pointing at a few minutes to midnight. Movie, television, and book producers are churning out doomsday stories. Even the newest generation is entitled Gen Z. My beloved grandmother, born in 1880, thought...
by Rebekah Binkley Montgomery | May 23, 2020 | Good Reads
Sunday morning. The acrid taste of dread fills your mouth as you think: I have to go to church. You want to go to church; just not your church. Your church is a ‘good’ church. The music is tolerable, the people are fine, the sermon is okay — mostly based on...
by Rebekah Binkley Montgomery | May 23, 2020 | Good Reads
We’ve all seen Hollywood caricature religious men as pasty-faced, effeminate, and hypocritical. Some artists even picture a testosterone-challenged Jesus. How has a Gospel begun by the Carpenter and spread by fishermen and other workingmen turn into a something for...
