Since I shared yesterday about checking the motives of our heart, I thought I'd treat you to a ministry reality check. If you are a pastor or have been in ministry you will enjoy this. If you are not, then maybe not so much. This post comes from Perry Noble entitled "What they really mean..." Check it out HERE. What are the real motives behind your words? What are the real motives behind your actions?
Ever since I was little, I've always wanted to know how things worked - what makes them tick? I see this in my middle son, Jonathan, who can't help asking you a million questions about everything and taking anything electronic and dismantling it to see how it works and if he can build something else out of the all the parts. In life we intuitively want answers to all our questions. I find this carries [...]
What is the future of the Church in America? How are we reaching the men of our culture? Where are the good soldiers? There is a shifting going on in our churches and culture causing people to long and looking for something more. Some have a growing discontent and a division is happening between those who want to attend church and those who are looking to be the church. There is a battle to strip away [...]
"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than someone lay down his life for his friends." John 15:12-13 (ESV) There is a high price for love. You can have it for free but it will cost everything. You cannot love without paying the full price. God will allow us to choose to live our lives on a lower level that He has [...]
My heart is weighing heavy on me this morning as I pray for some friend. My meditation today was on two passages of scripture. "...whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing." John 15:5 (ESV) "Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails..." 1 Corinthians 13:7-8 (ESV) I am concerned about the [...]
