Walking With Saints As They Near Home (via Zac Harrel)
Zac Harrel writes that amid a needed focus on discipling the young and newer Christians, there is a privileged ministry of pastoring senior saints as they near the end of their lives. One of the ways...
View ArticleGiving Up Boundaries With Jesus The Boundary Crosser (via Sarah Condon)
It’s a constant challenge to live in the truth that people are our ministry, not an impediment to our ministry objectives. It seems modern ministry strategies judge people not on the degree they cling...
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Vale Ron Clark
A blessing to watch the funeral of Rev Ron Clark today. If you search on Facebook for Creek Road Presbyterian the video may still be available, and that can inform you about this gracious and committed...
View ArticleAligning Ministry Service With Personal Narrative (via Stephanie Judd)
Stephanie Judd writes about aligning Christian service ministries with the personal narrative of individual Christians. The church is not a sausage factory. It’s a dynamic, diverse group of people that...
View ArticleFollowing Jesus, The Pioneer Pilgrim (via Jonathan Gibson)
A reflection on the longing for the better world which Christians experience, and how Jesus has walked through the darkness of this life to bring us to eternity with himself. From Jonathan Gibson: One...
View ArticleThe Importance Of The Christian’s Secret Life (via Derek Thomas)
Derek Thomas on the mark of Christian authenticity: our secret life. For those whose calling involves public expressions of the Christian life, the challenge is to live as a disciple of Jesus when...
View ArticleThe Spiritual Dangers Of Disconnecting From Creation (via Scott Martin at...
I do spend an hour and a half outside most days walking, but I’m not a huge fan of nature. To say the least. It’s a pretty well-known thing that anyone who knows me has heard about. This article by...
View ArticleSometimes We Forget We’re All The Wrong Sort Of People (via Larry Parsley)
In a book of devotions drawn from the Gospel of Mark, Larry Parsley reflects on the observation that Jesus attracts the wrong sort of people, and sometimes some of us can forget that we’re the wrong...
View ArticleTrue Piety Is Not Self-Centered (via Hywel Jones)
The experience of Job recounts a faithful and human expression of trust in God through a time of great suffering and confusion. Hywel Jones points out that we should be encouraged to know that God was...
View ArticleAnger Management When The Anger Is With God (via Bonnie Zahl)
Anger with God is not unbelief. It is an aspect of faith that has reached its current limitations. Bonnie Zahl writes about the various ways in which a relationship with God will sometimes find us in...
View ArticleLiving Between ‘Personal Power’ And ‘Presuming Providence’ (via Mike Emlet)
Mike Emlet encourages us to find the line that has trust in God’s providence on one side, and reliance on our effort and initiative on the other. it’s easy to become imbalanced and to drift into either...
View ArticleThe Need For Both The Cross And The Resurrection At The Same Time
These words were written with the season of Lent in mind, but they could easily be true of Good Friday as parts of Protestantism observe it. Each year we spend forty days pretending Jesus is going to...
View ArticleThe Attitude We Have About The Church Is The Attitude We Have About Jesus...
The Church is the body of Christ. Not figuratively. Literally. The way you’ll treat the Church tomorrow is the way you treat Jesus. From Stephen Kneale at Church Matters: If Christ is unified to his...
View ArticleThe Failure Which Is True Success (via Chad Bird)
… true success is found in the failure to find meaning and purpose in something we do, accomplish, build. Rather, our identity, our meaning and purpose, is not something we work for but receive from...
View ArticleJesus Doesn’t Believe In You. That’s Why He Saves You. (via Chad Bird)
It’s because Jesus knows us completely that he knows how completely we need to be saved. And that’s how he reveals the gracious magnitude of God’s love. From Chad Bird: Jesus knows good and well that...
View ArticleTaking Up Your Cross Is Not A Way Of Life, It’s A Way Of Death. (via Chad Bird)
Jesus is not a life coach. He’s not providing an example to follow, or teaching techniques to get us through the day or tough situations. What he invites us to do is die with him. From Chad Bird:...
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Being Parents Who Are Failures At Perfectionism (via Chad Bird)
Contemporary parenting undertakes the burden of providing a perfect life experience for children. It is an expression control on the part of the parent, taking the role of a God in the life of their...
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Everywhere We Look In The Church We See Priests (via Chad Bird)
The effort to recover the priesthood of all believers can’t be an effort to impose a pastorhood of all believers. Something is lost if everyone is pressganged into some form of pastoral function. More...
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Love Is Not Something We Fall Into, It Is A Rough And Rocky Hill Two People...
Marriage, contrary to popular thought is not a dream within a dream. It is a mutual commitment by two people to live as one for the the duration of their lives. And if it was easy, why would we need...
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The First Time Something Wasn’t Good And The Christianisation Of The Me...
Chad Bird likens the action of the church in greeting the me generation with an emphasis on an individualistic experience of salvation to attempting to douse a fire with petrol. His comments below are...
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