Weekend Musings Recently, I read a great article over at MiddleBrained.com from Dan Leverence. It made me think. It continues to make me think. Here’s the link to the article. (LINK) The article itself was titled, “More Questions for the Ongoing Conversation About Congregational Engagement in Worship.” I think Dan was asking some good questions and … More Worship Ministry and Hearing the Congregation Sing
We were the lost, …the forgotten, …the last thought of. For more see: A Modern Parable: They are Outside the Castle.
Saturday Musings I wonder how often we miss the greatness of what God is doing because our hearts are hard to the truth that cuts across and against the grain of what we want God to do? For more see: Fury at Jesus.
Friday Musings Perhaps the perfect word for our media-saturated, insta-everything expression age in which we live. “Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words. It is certain that the spirit of self-justification can be over come only by the Spirit of grace; nevertheless, … More Bonhoeffer on Combatting Evil Thoughts, Building Better Relationships
This one created some push back both on the BLOG as well as in the FaceBook universe when it was first posted two years ago. But I still believe that these five questions need to be seriously addressed by both our churches and every one of us who claims Jesus as his or her Savior. … More Five Evaluation Questions for Your Church Plant (or soul)
One of my favorite hymns is Before the Throne. Some years ago, I wrote some additional lyrics for it. I am away on a retreat speaking on the Art of Biblical Meditation and thought I would repost it today to encourage all my friends to reflect on the greatness of the gospel. A Hymn to … More A Hymn to Cry Out to God
Friday is for Heart Songs Luci Shaw is a gift. And so is her poetry. Here is one of her poems from the anthology published by Eerdmans in 2006. Enjoy and remember the wonder of what happened at Christmas. Made Flesh After the bright beam of hot annunciation fused heaven with dark earth his searing … More Made Flesh, “infinity walled in a womb”
Can you name five barriers to being close enough, long enough for effective modeling to occur? Read the post before the question: Is This the Apostle Paul’s Discipleship Process?.
Sitting here watching the second half of the Army-Navy game and saw someone comment on this post from 2013. In honor of the game and my Navy veteran Dad, here’s a lesson on church growth from a naval episode in World War II. Misinformation is Deadly to Your Church.
Click on the first blue link for 1 minute of fun. // <![CDATA[ (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1″; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, ‘script’, ‘facebook-jssdk’)); // ]]> <div class=”fb-post” data-href=”https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10151631370959232″ data-width=”466″> Post by Uluslararası İlişkiler Üzerine Makaleler.
