We are quietly working this process in the ministry of Trinity Church with some wonderful results. One day, every man and woman in the church will be able to point to a mentor who helped them along the way. For more see: Older Men Teaching Younger.
Tuesday is for Thinking I’m generally a positive and hopeful person, except when it comes to politics. Then I become a cynic. The political season is tuning up its machinery to once again pull the wool over the eyes of America. Both the major political parties are well oiled machines at saying one thing and … More How Many Political Candidates Would Pass these Standards?
Hear this former hindu priest’s story and marvel at the work of Project India and my friend Terry Ivy. Hindu Priest Comes to Christ He who lived for demons now lives for Christ and is training to be a church planter.
Update: Now seems a good time to repost this insight from Wolfhart Pannenberg. The church at large is having a significant crisis of identity. Pannenberg speaks clearly to some of the issues. The following is from Kairos Journal. Here is an article worth reading and thinking about. This post first appeared in September of 2014. … More Wolfhart Panneberg on What Is and Isn’t a Church
Read Psalm 39 Sitting in a coffee shop, (The Copper Pot) and thinking on the brevity of life. The older I get, (about to celebrate another decade’s end), the truer these words feel. They, the words of this text, have always been true of course. But their impact on my spirit grows deeper as I … More Coffee Pot Ponderings on Time and Worship
“To be right with God often meant to be in trouble with men.” —A.W. Tozer The world has changed. As boomers and their grandparents die off the culture is about to take a huge leap off a cliff as the forty-year experiment in relativistic thinking yields it final fruit. Like Wiley Coyote chasing the road-runner, we … More Fighting the Good Fight the Good Way
Tuesday is for Thinking “Of all the distortions of scripture—and heaven knows there have been plenty in our time—the most disastrous is surely to suggest that when our Lord insisted that his Kingdom was not of this world, he meant that it was. An equivalent distortion would be to devise a version of the third … More Distortions of Scripture and the Wisdom of Malcolm Muggeridge
Tuesday is for Thinking Six realities that have to be faced up to about the American Church We are not as mature as we think we are. Survey after survey confirms this. Whether we are talking about doctrine or practice, the American church is embarrassingly thin in the maturity department. We are not as bold … More Six Realities and Two Dreams for the American Church
I’ve opened up a hornets nest here, but it must be done. If we do “spiritual formation” divorced from equipping for, exhorting to, and holding one another accountable to be witnessing, testimony giving, heralds of the gospel, we will bastardize the process and develop warped, selfish, spiritual snobs To read more, see Why Spiritual Formation is … More Why Spiritual Formation is a Bad Substitute for Discipleship
Tuesday is for Reflection Rereading Ann Voskamp’s One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, an entire book exploring the “intentional embrace of a lifestyle of radical gratitude,” (from the backcover). This is a discipline that is not easy, but it is a discipline that transforms life, all of life and Ann … More “You’ve Changed” : : The Difference Gratitude Makes
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