Thursday is for Discipleship I admit it. I love history. And I love reading the history of previous believers with the guts to live for the Savior. Here’s one of my ancient heroes from the annals of Christian history. Diognetus reminds us of where our true citizenship lies and where our true power is derived … More Lovers of the World for the Joy of Heaven
Missional Leadership It’s A.D. 51 and a month or two ago the Apostle Paul had planted the church in Thessalonica. Now he’s in Corinth and he pens 1 Thessalonians to encourage the saints in their new faith in Christ. What this means is that when we look at 1 Thessalonians, we are looking at what … More Churches are Doing Much and Accomplishing Little
Sunday Afternoon Musings John 4:16-30 Jesus and the Woman of Samaria Three things Jesus is looking for based on his interaction with the Samaritan woman: A worshiper devoted to truth. A worshiper devoted to reality over hypocrisy or form. A worshiper devoted to pleasing God. 19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive … More What is a Quality Disciple? or What is a Worshiper?
The early disciples knew, that salvation was free but there was still a cost involved with following Christ. But that doesn’t seem very popular in a culture of plenty and the vigorous pursuit of happiness. For more see: Dying for Jesus isn’t Very Popular These Days: Neither is Living for Him.
Monday is for Discussion Terry Ivy, a friend with a fantastic ministry training church planters via the internet in India, wrote a great post titled What Kind of Leaders are We Creating? Recently, I have had some opportunity to reflect on both his post and my response to it through some men that I’m mentoring. … More Eight Ways to Develop Young Leaders
Thursday is for Discipleship 1 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go. 2 And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord … More “Deadliest Catch™” Knows More About Making Disciples than We Do!
Monday Discussion Water Science Photo Gallery All of Earth’s Water in a Single Sphere “This picture shows the size of a sphere that would contain all of Earth’s water in comparison to the size of the Earth. The blue sphere sitting on the United States, reaching from about Salt Lake City, Utah to Topeka, Kansas, … More A Challenge to Christians Related to Conservation
Wednesday is for Prayer Too often we help others because it makes us feel good. We need to help the poor for the poor not our self-esteem. Another way of putting it—We need to help the poor because we love Jesus and them not ourselves. Don’t miss this Short video from the The Chalmer’s Center. … More We’ve Got to Find Better Ways to Help the Poor Everywhere
Monday is for Discussion This is a discussion, I started over on LinkedIn. I thought it might be helpful to bring both it and the start of the discussion thread over here to the blog. Russell Wimberly • House churches will not penetrate anything if they are not evangelistic/missional minded. This is the prevailing problem with house … More Give three ways house churches might help penetrate our growing post-Christian culture.
Thursday is for Discipleship Assuming that a person has repented of sin and believed in Christ as their Savior, Sin-bearer, reigning and soon-coming King, how do we help people to live moment by moment in relationship to the living God? How do we help them grow in the grace and knowledge of Christ? I have … More Living in a Moment by Moment Relationship with God.
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