Sinner, Follower of Christ, Husband, Father, Son, Church Planter, Professor, Writer, Speaker, Mentor and Coach, and did I say Sinner?
That’s one way to think of Christmas. With the incarnation, with the God-man Savior, the plan of the Father to conquer sin and its effects, including death, is unleashed. Christmas is the beginning of the end for death. All those who rightly fear death can run to a Savior who rescues them from death and … More The Beginning of the End of Death
I love the simplicity and the wisdom of this post from a recent visitor to the ChosenRebel BLOG. I hope it is an encouragement to you today.
Being a winsome evangelist doesn’t have to involve compromise but it does involve being thoughtful and avoiding needless adverserial confrontation. Maybe this snippit from an online conversation will be of some help as an example for your own testimony to a watching world. The following is a response I gave a number of years ago … More Engaging the Non-Christian Mind
From the first year of the BLOG.New Observations on Intensely Local Ministry Intensely local ministry is an investment and investments take New Observations on Intensely Local Ministry Intensely local ministry is an investment and investments take time to compound and grow. —financial investments take time to grow and so do relat… Source: Missional Musings on … More Missional Musings on Intensely Local Ministry
For all the “broken” people who know the reality of need: “You see,” Dr. Iverson said, “If you are broken, you don’t have to ask to be used. God delights to use broken people. That’s the only way to be filled [with the Spirit] and it’s the only way to become useable.” See this link … More Spirit of the Living God, Break Me in Pieces
Question: How significant in your discipleship process is the teaching that Christ is coming again and that we ought to live today as if Christ might come today, everyday? Source: How We Destroy Spiritual Formation at its Initiation
The world around us is the juice in which we swim. We are, in too many ways, like cucumbers being slowly turned into pickles. That is not to say that we have no defense against the insidious creep of the world. But it is statement about the sobering reality of the battle. Source: Learning from … More Learning from the Bumps on Other Heads
The following historical time-capsule is from Kairos Journal. It is a great reminder that great beginnings do not necessarily end well. Harvard had a great evangelistic thrust for the gospel at its inception but not so much anymore. Whatever the gain for the nation in terms of its present structure, it is a loss for … More How Harvard Shaped the Nation (long ago)
What I’m Thinking about This Evening “It is true that those in the first flush of faith often are given unusual graces of the Spirit, just like a new baby is cuddled and pampered. It is also true that some of the deepest experiences of alienation and separation from God have come to those who … More Sunday Musing
“We draw people to Christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.” Madeleine L’Engle. “O God, give me grace to … More Haunting Quotes Filled with Truth
