Are we able to accept that God’s calling on our lives is the best that we could ever have? Am I at peace with the idea that what God wants me to do with my life is the best thing, most satisfying, most rewarding, most caring thing that could happen to me? Am [...]
We have always called ourselves tax-exempt 5013c anti-profit organization. We wrestle to free ourselves from macrocharity and distant acts of charity that serve to legitimize apathetic lifestyles of good intentions but rob us of the gift of community. We visit rich people had have them visit us. We preach, prophesy, and dream [...]
I was talking with my friend Chris W. this morning over breakfast and he’s been reading up on why church leaders fail in recent weeks. I think failure in leadership comes from two things, a separation of family and leadership responsibility and a separation of leader and led.
From the little experience that I have [...]
Random thought of today is to use your cell phone like a prayer list. Go through a couple of names if you have some free time and pray for them. If you don’t know what to pray for, give them a call and see how they are doing. This is easy [...]
I’ve been reading Rob Bell’s book, Velvet Elvis after watching a few of his Nooma DVD series. I’ve been learning about about Hebrew culture and such. For example, in Flame (#2 in the Nooma series) Bell goes through 3 words that describe love in the Hebrew language: Raya, Ahava, and Dod. [...]
