or How did Jesus teach, share, engage, serve those of the world?
Per that same conversation with my friend, Ben, in my aforementioned post last Friday, I was challenged with this:
“How would you teach on any given subject: give the information or let the person figure out for themselves?”
My immediate instinct and answer, “Give the information. [...]
Excerpt from Steven Anderson’s sermon:
… you’re going to tell me that I’m supposed to pray for the socialist devil, murderer, infanticide, who wants to see young children and he wants to see babies killed through abortion and partial-birth abortion and all these different things — you’re gonna tell me I’m supposed to pray for God [...]
From The Week’s article, D.C.’s ‘invisible army’ for Christ:
What does the Family believe?
Its theology is vague, elastic, and focused on power. The basic precepts came to Vereide in a vision in 1935, according to the group’s literature. Living in Seattle, he came to believe that union organizing in the city was communist-inspired. Jesus appeared to [...]
Praying and receiving prayer requests this weekend, I dwell on this thought by Mark Driscoll as I loosely quote:
“I had two seminary students come up to me to ask me about working in ministry full time. You know the type: fresh faced, pastel colored knit shirts and full of enthusiasm. They asked, “What’s it like [...]
I have always know this for most of my life. However, because every single person I ever have lived with is not an night owl, I really thought something was wrong with me and thus didn’t take advantage of this.
Fortunately, for me and your President, we know how we roll:
“I’m a night owl. My usual [...]
Lecrae (via twitter) asks:
What are 3-4 books/authors that have heavily influenced you or that you’d recommend? Don’t hold back, I wanna know.
My response would have taken 10 tweets.
Since I own a blog, I will use it and then respond with a link back.
Since I am about all things pastoring and preaching, here are the books/sets [...]
Four months ago, God kept telling me that I should be leaving Gateway and be involved, somehow, someway with The Village Church.
Four months ago it didn’t make sense so I ignored it.
Yet, God won’t relent until He has it all. Proof of that is the Holy Spirit continued to speak to me with all of [...]
When you ordain ministers who are known, proud and unrepentant sinners, don’t be shocked when you see your church shrink in size.
When you don’t call out sinners to repent and break themselves before the Almighty God, don’t be shocked when people are not attracted to God.
When you ignore the Holy Spirit of the Bible who [...]
That my preacher has taught me a great deal about the Bible.
More importantly, he is in a long line of pastors who make me want to be a pastor.
I don’t agree with him all the time. But I thank God for him and I am more than blessed to be submitted to his leadership.
May the [...]
Seriously, I had to look this sucker up on the Internet.
con⋅tex⋅tu⋅al⋅ize [kuhn-teks-choo-uh-lahyz] –verb (used with object)
to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, esp. one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
Okay. That is awesome (not really). That tells me a little bit.
But this is the quote from the [...]