Weekend Musings Title of Book: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, by John Maxwell and Zig Ziglar, (Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, 1998.) Overview: The book purports to be exactly what its title implies. It suggests that these laws of leadership (I’d be more comfortable if he called them principles.): a) can be learned, b) can … More Brief Review of 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
Friday is for Heart Songs YEARNING FOR MORE Make room Lord Expand my heart Stretch my spirit Ignite my passion Energize my resolve To go anywhere Do anything Pay any price Endure any hardship Dismiss any ridicule For the glory of Your name For the spread of Your kingdom For the expression of Your mercy … More Yearning for More of an Infinite God is Serious Work
Thursday is for Discipleship Thought: “… most spiritual growth happens on a haphazard need-to-grow or need-to-know basis. As life happens, we’re suddenly confronted by the need for personal growth or more biblical information in an area of life that up to now hasn’t seemed all that important.” (Larry Osborne, A Contrarians Guide to Knowing … More Cookie-Cutter Discipleship is a Waste of Time
“Using what you have, where you are, whom you are among, to make a difference for Christ.” Here’s a series of exercises to help your small group or house church begin to develop an Intensely Local texture to their ministry. Principle: The home and the ‘hood rather than the church building and programs, are the primary … More Intensely Local: God gave you that house, how will you use it for His glory?
Wednesday is for Prayer How do You name Yourself in these passages? (Revelation 2-3) 2:1 The One who holds the seven stars in his right hand 2:7 The One who walks among the seven golden lampstands 2:8 The first and the last 2:8 (The One) who was dead and has come to … More Praying through the Names of God
Tuesday is for Preaching “My Bible“ Sometimes we use language strangely. Is my Bible really my Bible? I mean it is mine as distinct from the Bible that somebody else is carrying around but it really isn’t mine. In fact, the book that I call my Bible is really not mine at all. It’s God’s. … More Preaching the Gospel to the Preacher’s Soul
Monday is for Discussion “And after they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch, strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying, ‘Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.’” (Acts … More First Century New Believer Follow-up: A Sobering Reassessment
Counseling Insight The right thing is not always the effective thing. Problem: The brother or sister is angry because what you told them to do, believe, or say, on the basis of sound reasoning from the Scripture, “didn’t work.” Analysis: Sometimes there is correspondence between what is right and what is effective. Sometimes there isn’t. Not understanding this … More Applying the Word of God to Counseling
Weekend Musings Clement lived between A.D. 30-100. He is one of what are called the Ante-Nicene [Before Nicene Council] Fathers. He may have known the apostle Paul (cf. Phil 4:3). He probably wrote his first letter to the Corinthians in about A.D. 96. The following is from “chapters 7-9” where he writes about how we … More A First Century Gospel Presentation
Weekend Musings “There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.” John Calvin
