Tag: Poverty

Humbling Links; Challenging Links; Thought Provoking Links; Funny Links and much more.

December 3, 2011

Weekend Links Enjoy your reading. Though I don’t agree with all, all of them will challenge your thinking. Have a great weekend. Growing as a Leader/ as a Believer Living a Gospel Saturated Life (Jared Wilson) Four Questions that Improve Your Leadership Thinking (Mark Howell) Growing Through Brokenness (Ron Edmondson) Why We Love C.S. Lewis … More Humbling Links; Challenging Links; Thought Provoking Links; Funny Links and much more.

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Required: Serving the Peace (The Shalom) of the City

December 3, 2011

Required: Serving the Peace (The Shalom) of the City. This is a theme that is echoed in much of Jesus’ teaching. The beaten (think of parable of the Good Samaritan), the oppressed (think of the women who had suffered much at the hands of physicians), the poor (think of the widow’s mite), the despised (think … More Required: Serving the Peace (The Shalom) of the City

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Too Often, We Confuse Means, Ends and Results

October 31, 2011

Tuesday’s Continuing Discussion  (This continues a discussion that started in yesterday’s post. “Yesterday” being 10/30/2011.) I think there are two other problems associated with the good works that Christians are called to do in the world. On the one hand some see the good that we do, the injustices that we seek to address, the … More Too Often, We Confuse Means, Ends and Results

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Multi-Site Churches; Celebrity Pastors; Protestants and Catholics; and the Gospel of Steve Jobs

October 7, 2011

Disappointing night with the Phillies losing to the Cardinals but I still belong to Jesus, so not really a big deal. These weekend’s links are filled with provocative thoughts and insight. As always, I read ’em, I link ’em, and post ’em, but that doesn’t mean I agree with all that is in them. Growing … More Multi-Site Churches; Celebrity Pastors; Protestants and Catholics; and the Gospel of Steve Jobs

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Do Good, But Start with and Never Forget the Priority of Proclamation

July 13, 2011

Thursday is for Discipleship In the book Follow Me: Experiencing the Loving Leadership of Jesus,  Jan David Hettinga, writes: “Jesus did not call the cross or His death and resurrection the good news. For Jesus, the kingdom was the good news. The magnificent work of the cross is the beginning. Atonement, reconciliation, redemption, justification, and … More Do Good, But Start with and Never Forget the Priority of Proclamation

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Required: Serving the Peace (The Shalom) of the City

October 6, 2010

Thursday is for Discipleship “Churches grow best not when they aim at church growth as much as when they serve the peace/shalom of the whole city.”[1] Why? Two reasons: one, it is the biblical model of ministry. Jesus, Paul and the early church all seemed to give significant attention to the poor and the downcast … More Required: Serving the Peace (The Shalom) of the City

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