No fancy graphics or streaming video—just a site of provocative and sometimes helpful writing for Christians who think. Thanks for dropping by. Help yourself to anything—everything is free but it’s worth it. -- Keith Drury       Who Is Keith Drury?                            

2011-2012 Columns

LEADERSHIP PROVERBS

~ Fortune Tide (1/17/12)

~ Competence Failure (1/10/12)

~ Bit Market (1/3/12)

~ Duck Hunting (12/20/11)

~ Committees usually pick beige (12/13/11)

~ #3 Pencil Principle (12/5/11)

OPINION COLUMNS

~ I follow politics like others follow sports(11/29/11)

~ Why Wesleyan should merge with Nazarenes(11/22/11)

~ Denominational name changes (11/15/11)

~ How to save a bundle on college(11/8/11)

~ Wanna’ start a college? (11/1/11)

~ Unneeded generation (10/25/11)

~ Changing missions (10/16/11)

~ Mormons & Evangelicals (10/11/11)

~ Church size (10/4/11)

~ School Choice (9/27/11)

~Stages of tongues movement (9/20/11)

~5 Pillars of Christianity? (9/13/11)

2010-2011 COLUMNS

~ Impractical teachings of Jesus(5/3/11)

~ Sale! on Seniors (4/26/11)

~ Nazarene-Wesleyan Merger (4/19/11)

~ CHM’s fork in the road (4/12/11)

~ Choosing vs Submitting to Beliefs (4/5/11)

~ Tenure for Pastors? (3/29/11)

~ Julian Assange & the church (3/22/11)

~ GOD: Demanding? Affirming?(3/15/11)

~ Who goes to Hell? (3/8/11)

~ Windows® Religion (3/1/11)

~ Happy 50^th Birthday (2/22/11)

~ Long hair for women?(2/15/11)

~ Music to my ears (2/8/11)

~ Interesting Mind Experiment  (2/1/11)

~ Five Stages of Outrage(1/25/11)

~ Calling for Change (1/18/11)

~My Impressions of “The Gathering”(1/8/11)

~ Social Reform Clusters (12/28/10)

~ Why December 25? (12/21/10)

~ Preaching Incarnation this Christmas? (12/14/10)

~Will Ministers lose tax-free Housing?  (12/7/10)

~ 75 songs I was raised on  (11/30/10)

~ The New Two-Stage-Marriage (11/23)

~ Sing it and they will come? (11/16)

~ The NEW Uniform Series (11/9)

~ Holiness is a hard sell (11/2)

~ the Social Gospel Revisited (10/19)

~ 20Something fiscal Future (10/12)

~ How do people “get saved” today?(10/5)

~ What is “Traditional worship music?”(9/28)

~ Full Service Church  (9/21)

~ Replacing Camp Meetings (9/14)

~ Post Mortem Sanctification (9/7)

~There is no holiness but social holiness (8/31)

 2009-2010 COLUMNS

      Regular columns

~ Gone Fishin’—for the summer (4/27)

~ Wesleyans believe about the Bible: (4/20)

~ Wesleyans believe: Sanctification (4/13)

~ Remaking the church for BOOMERS (4/6)

~ History of the Sunday School (3/30)

~ The Tea Party Comes to Church (3/23)

~ Search for a New Gospel (3/16)

~ Trips to Haiti & trips to the altar (3/9)

  ~Helps: Parliamentary Law Cheat Sheet (3/9)

~ Why don’t YOU get a Spring Break? (3/2)

~ Two Prohibition Movements (2/23)

~ Is it sin to drink beer? (2/16)

~ Living in Indiana (& the COLTS) (2/9)

~ Our senior pastor is in trouble!  (2/2)

~ The Women-in-Leadership scale (1/26)

~ Pastor Leno is coming back (1/19)

~ (Future history) Holiness Anonymous (1/19)

~ Making Dreams Come True (1/12)

~ Changes 2000-2010   (1/5).

~ Dealing with Procrastination  (12/29)

~ (personal) Drury Christmas card.

~The Rest of the Story… ;-)  (12/22)

~ Genetics and Sanctification (12/15)

~ Dave Ramsey for Treasury!  (12/8)

~ There’s Someone Stalking me! (12/1)

~ The Curious Doctrine of Entire Sanctification (11/24)

~ When NOT to perform a wedding (11/3)

~ The Sins of Old Age (10/27)

~ Sermon notes: From Great to Good ….(10/20)

~ The Doctrine of entitlement (10/6)

~ The church response to H1N1 (9/15)

~ The Spirit of Insurrection (9/15)

~ Camp Meeting Survival  (9/8)

     Last year’s “I’m proud of my graduates” columns

~ ALL THE FOLLOWING IN ONE FILE

~ MY JOY: Mark & Jess Schmerse  .

~ MY JOY: Lynn Payne  

~ MY JOY: Jared Bell 

~ MY JOY: Christy Hontz Lipscomb (1/5)

~ MY JOY: Aaron Cloud (1/12)

~ MY JOY: Julie Collins ((1/19)

~ MY JOY: Adam Thada (1/26)

~ MY JOY: Austin Bonds—NYC (2/2)

~ MY JOY: Kelsi Adkins.(3/9)

~ MY JOY: Zach & Becca Coffin (2/9)

~ MY JOY: Ian Swyers & Danielle (2/16)

~ MY JOY: Craig Coe (3/2)

~ MY JOY: Steve & Amber Abel (2/23)

~ MY JOY: Eddie Smith (3/16)

~ MY JOY: Tom Cochran (3/23)

~ MY JOY: Dustin Krantz  (3/30)

~ MY JOY: Dave Mireau  (4/6)

~ MY JOY: Marcelo & Laura Santana (4/13)

~ MY JOY: Jarod Osborne (4/20)

     Pilgrim Holiness Church history columns last year

 ~ 1 Founding of the Pilgrims (1897)  (9/8)

~ 2 Missional Expansion (1898-1905) (9/15)

~ 3 Acting Like a Denomination (1905-1919) (9/22)

~ 4 Mergers & Acquisitions (1919-1929) (9/29)

~ 5 Did Pilgrims split from Nazarenes?(1917) (10/6)

~ 6 Consolidation & Centralization (1930) (10/13)

~ 7 The Finch Dissention (1936) (10/20)

~ 8 Explosive Church Growth (1930-1946) (10/27)

~ 9 Middle Age Spread (1946-1962) (11/3)

~ 10 Pre-Marital Challenges (1962-1966) (11/10)

~ 11 Merger with Wesleyan Methodists (1966-68) (11/17)

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