Sunday Afternoon Musing “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” Exodus 20:3 “If we kept that commandment all the other commandments would be obeyed. If we secure this queenbee we are given the swarm. To put nothing ‘before’ God! What is left in the circle of obedience? God first, always and everywhere. Nothing … More Keeping the First Commandment – How to Build a World
Being in tune with the moment is often very ordinary. But the rewards to waiting in expectation that God “is going to do something” are extraordinary. via What Do You Do When Your Neighbor Says He is Probably Going to Hell?
Read Psalm 36 Part of the Poetry ProjectAn attempt to write a “poetic reflection” on each of the psalms in the Psalter.Don’t think of these as high art, (that won’t be hard);but as one man’s attempt to be honest with the spirit contained in the psalm. Your Heart Has a Voice Your heart has a … More Your Heart has a Voice (that you cannot trust)
On Tuesday I was involved in some on-line mentor training led by Dynamic Church Planting International (DCPI). All of the presenters were friends of mine and they did a fantastic job of sharpening our focus on how to mentor the church planters with whom we are working. And like any good mentor, each of them … More How to Start Church
Almost twenty years ago, a band of fundamentalist, doctrinaire terrorists called the Taliban, decided that their vision of a better world could not be attained without the destruction of 6th century artistic expressions of Buddha’s carved out of sandstone cliffs in Afghanistan. I remember how apalled I and most of the world was at the … More Blowing Up Buddha
The Importance of Teamwork “A zoologist once informed me that a tiger will defeat a lion in a battle; but five lions will defeat five tigers because the lions fight together and the tigers do not, so the five lions take on one tiger at a time.” (The Celtic Way of Evangelism, 18.) Did … More Quotes from a Weekend of Reading
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