How to keep Chreasters coming back

Posted on April 8, 2013 Written by Mark McIntyre 3 Comments

How should the church respond to Chreasters, those who attend on Christmas and Easter? Is there anything we can do to keep them coming? I think there is and it isn’t very complicated.

The reason we are blessed

I want to be blessed because it makes my life easier or comfortable. That is how I often assess if I am being blessed. If I am uncomfortable or something is going on in my life which is difficult, I feel like the blessing switch has been turned off.

How to Help People with a Substance Abuse Problem through the Bible

This is a quest post by Patrick Bailey. If you would like to contribute a post to Attempts at Honesty, please read the guest post guiines and get in contact with me if you feel that you can work within those guiines to submit a post. Note that there is a link in this post […]

Don’t look to Egypt for help

Isaiah 31:1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in the multitude of their chariots and in the great strength of their horsemen, but do not lo to the Holy One of Israel, or seek help from the LORD. Over the years that I have been […]

Where is the crowd? – Sermon on the Mount Series #1

At the end of Matthew chapter 4, we are told that “great multitudes followed [Jesus]—from Galilee, and from Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan.” Wherever Jesus went, he drew a crowd. Certainly some of the draw was his ability to heal. I’m sure that others followed out of a desire to see a miracle. […]

What is my motive?

I should point out that there is value in doing the right thing even if our motives are not entirely pure (which they will never be in this lifetime). I’m certainly not saying that one should sit on the siines until something can be done with perfect motives.

Failure: The Unintended Consequence of Success

This is a guest post by Todd Pylant whose biographical information appears in the author box below this post. If you would like to provide a guest post to Attempts at Honesty, please see the guest post guiines and contact me if you are interested in providing a post. The writer of Hebrews demonstrated faith […]