Growing a Church that Does More than Cook Fish. Wouldn’t it be great if our churches were filled with disciples who were passionately engaged in doing what Jesus told them to do?
Sunday Musings This week I was busy with writing a long paper for a class in my doctoral program so I serialized an essay I wrote a couple of years ago in six parts. Unfortunately, I got two of the parts out of sequence! Opps! So If you want to read them in the right … More Redefining Who a Christian Is, Biblically of Course.
Weekend Links Enjoy your reading. Though I don’t agree with all, all of them will challenge your thinking. Have a great weekend. Growing as a Leader/ as a Believer Living a Gospel Saturated Life (Jared Wilson) Four Questions that Improve Your Leadership Thinking (Mark Howell) Growing Through Brokenness (Ron Edmondson) Why We Love C.S. Lewis … More Humbling Links; Challenging Links; Thought Provoking Links; Funny Links and much more.
Required: Serving the Peace (The Shalom) of the City. This is a theme that is echoed in much of Jesus’ teaching. The beaten (think of parable of the Good Samaritan), the oppressed (think of the women who had suffered much at the hands of physicians), the poor (think of the widow’s mite), the despised (think … More Required: Serving the Peace (The Shalom) of the City
Weekend Musings Conclusion: Sojourners Change the World (Part 6) One result of living like sojourners, knowing we are bathed in the blood of the cross, and identified with the sacrifice of our Savior and desiring to emulate Him as close as possible, will be a powerful stimulus to less homogeneity in our congregations and fewer … More Sojourners Change the World, So Let’s Not be Settlers
No Finger Pointing, … Just sayin’. How serious are we in dealing with sin in our lives?
Continued from Yesterday “What is a Christian: How Should He View himself and His Mission? (part 4) Today: (Part 5) We are a “cross-bought and cross-shaped people.” Let me start by citing a number of Scriptures. First, on the “cross-bought” nature of our existence, Paul speaking to the Ephesian elders says this: Acts 20:28 “Be … More A Cross-shaped People: The Goal of Christian Discipleship
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