The Contentment Principle "Rich” is an American ideal, is it not? Americans read about the lifestyles of the rich, watch TV shows about the rich, and obsess over what it would be like to be rich. In fact, when someone reaches a certain level of wealth, they become famous simply for being rich. As American
Genesis 1:26-28, "Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created mankind in
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Should I take that job? Is he the one? What should I study in school? Should we sell the house? These are big questions related to discovering God's will for your life. Behind all of these questions is the reality that we all want to know what God knows. We want Divine perspective on life.
The call of Jesus to Christians is clear, "Go and make disciples" (Matthew 28:19), but do we really know how to make disciples? Or are we just really good and describing a disciple? When asked to describe what a disciple is you might say, "Someone who loves Jesus" or "Someone who follows the rules." or
Growing up in Christian sub-culture of the 90's there was one question everyone was asking - WWJD? What would Jesus do? We loved this question. We put it on our bracelets (and then wore them inside out), bumper stickers, pens and anything else that could be imprinted. We even made movies with that question as
Many churches in the US are organized around two ships; the leadership and the fellowship. Let's think about these terms for a second.....the leadership.....the fellowship......the leader ship.......the fellow ship. When the community in a local church is broken into these two groups it means they are in different boats! It is hard to be unified
I want to be the best pastor I can be. Since the position of pastor is a position of leadership, the truth is I want to be the best leader I can be. Which is why my shelves are filled with books on leadership. Books about the character of a leader. Books about leadership principles,
On 9/8/13 we gave our congregation money to go and be generous. We called it a “reverse offering” and our goal was to jumpstart generosity in our community. One-time generosity takes courage and becoming generous requires a change of heart, so we thought we would break down the primary barrier to generosity – feeling like
