From Questions, Two Applications
It was a beautiful summer day in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. My grandparents were taking my sister and I tubing...truly one of our favorite activities of those childhood vacations. We arrived at the creek and shortly there after launched out into the water as our grandparents went on to meet us at the …
In Aaron Morrow's Small Town Mission we are reminded of a significant teaching which is often overlooked. In Luke 10 Jesus is ready to send out his 72 evangelists but not before giving them a key. He said, The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest …
Do your prayers matter? Do they go anywhere? I bet you have been in....or maybe are in a season right now where it feels like prayer does nothing and goes no where. It can be like vertigo (a dizzy like feeling that is your brain playing tricks on you). It feels like the room or …
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What comes to your mind when you hear the word FEARLESS? Is it the soldier running into battle? The firefighter climbing a tall ladder up to a burning building? A civilian charging an active shooter at a mall? Often fearless has the idea of bold... courageous... valiant... lionhearted... stouthearted... heroic... daring...and yeah I could have …
Word association...what comes to mind??? End Times... Judgement... New Earth... Rapture... Resurrection... Redemption... Retribution... I am sure that on each point a few words or ideas may have come to mind. And rightfully so that we think of different things with each one. Yet let me ask: Was one of them motive to pray? I …
Just a few months after I had taken on my first pastorate (that is, my current and only pastorate) I led my first "Annual Business Meeting"...and had absolutely no idea what I was doing. I botched the budget presentation, didn't know how to make a motion for a vote, and lastly, I didn't maintain the …
The past two posts I have asked you to consider what problems your church has. I won't ask the questions again but I do want to launch from there. I do not mean to be negative, but lets be real: How many Sunday dinners have been meat, potatoes, and a side of deacon so-and so, …
Again I ask the two questions I mentioned last week: What does God want you to do on a Sunday Morning? What does God expect? Why do we do what we do at church. I’m sure for many of you those are not new questions nor new ideas. Maybe you have given thought to them. …
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About two years ago I began to notice three men in my commmuniy (one from my church and two from other churches) who had what I call “holy discontent”. Its that passion to see one's church be more than it is. You can hear the concern not so much in their words, but in their …
The Reforming Raker 