By WALTER ALBRITTON Some churches are growing. Some are treading water. And some are dying. Wise pastors want their church to grow. So what is the...
How the Church Grows
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Walt Albritton Articles
A Thousand Stairways into the Heart
By WALTER ALBRITTON I used to tell a silly story to illustrate a significant truth. It was about a man who, walking home in the dark one night, fell...
Squeeze Every Drop of Joy Out of Now
By WALTER ALBRITTON Henry David Thoreau offered us some good ideas. He insisted we should “live in the present” and “find eternity in each moment.”...
Fixing and Protecting Our Primary Relationships
By WALTER ALBRITTON My good friend Billy Gaither sent me a book recently. It’s not a new book nor an old one but I had not seen it. First published...
An Urgent Plea to My Fellow Citizens of Alabama
By WALTER ALBRITTON As one old citizen of Alabama, I am deeply concerned about the future of our state as it relates to the COVID-19 pandemic. Based...
Drinking the Joy of Deathless Springs
By WALTER ALBRITTON As family and friends gathered with me last Saturday to celebrate my wife’s life, it occurred to me that there can be no...
Any Rope Burns On Your Hands?
By WALTER ALBRITTON Before he met Jesus, Saul was a brilliant pharisee living in Jerusalem. After the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, Saul...
Running Life’s Greatest Race
By ALBRITTON I remember vividly my flight into Nome, Alaska. After flying from Mobile to Chicago, I had enjoyed a pleasant Delta ride into...
A Prayer of Thanks for My Brother Seth
By ALBRITTON Loving Father, thank you for understanding how upset I was when you allowed my brother Seth to die of a heart attack last week. Sudden...