That was the statement our friend Biscuet (he also talked about this great story here) made in his message this morning, no one is actually “called to missions”. Although this truth rarely seems to be stated in the American church, it is stated in scripture throughout the Bible but most recognizably in the last verse [...]
Christmas is fast approaching and soon (for some) the gifts purchased up to this point will translate into a lousy January, but if you haven’t finished quite yet, please consider the 50,000 Shoes campaign. I wanted to give a quick update to my post back in November called Soles4Souls Blogging Challenge, 50,000 Pairs of Shoes [...]
The only time I really like to jump on the bandwagon is when it is for a good cause. The blogging groups that I run with are all doing a blogging challenge in conjunction with Soles4Souls in order to raise 50,000 pairs of shoes in 50 days. All it takes is a $5 donation to [...]
Tomorrow the team from Cornerstone (see commissioning below) will continue the story of lives coming together from a small church here in Auburn to a small church in Buloba, Uganda. The last trip, made in June ( see Welcome Home from the Mission Field in Buloba Uganda Africa) of this year, was a working team [...]
This was probably one of the busiest weeks I have had in a long time, but Thursday was a little more relaxed and I was part of the welcome home crew at our church (the part that shoved a camera in everyone’s face after they had been on a plane/bus for more than 28 hours). [...]
This may sound like another semi-negative blog post on my part, but it is something that my wife and I deal with quite a bit and has really struck a nerve, so stay with me if you can.
When we look at what we have and what we decide to give up for various things, it [...]
Week 10 of Creative Chaos
This is my post for Creative Chaos (see also guidelines) over at Ragamuffin Soul for this week. A few weeks ago our church was finishing up a series called Fluid, see my post Almost Mid-week, Are You Fluid?, that was focusing on local missions.
A Focus on Local Missions
What was so [...]
This is pretty straight forward question, not meant to be real complicated. How do we fulfill the Great Commission using the tools of the Internet? Just to start off, I don’t want to imply that this is an alternative, or replacement, for the action verb of “going”, but just a simple basic question, what are [...]
It is almost mid-week, have you picked up or thought about your fluid card yet? Brian’s Worship Journey blog this morning, a loss for words reminded me that this is not something we should do, check off the list, job well done, and move on.
This is something we need to keep with us in [...]
Some times you can connect with a church or a worship service and you just feel the pastor has written or prepared this service with just you in mind. This is true, of course, just ask the pastor. But then there are times like in our service today, when you come to a realization [...]