As you look over your mission trip checklist for sunscreen, water bottle and other essentials, make sure you have made plans to take these people along with you.
The churches I had experienced up to that point in my life were asking one primary question: What do we do to get by from week to week? But the driving question at this church planting church was: How do we advance the kingdom of God in and around this community?
How do you define discipleship? Join Chad, Drew, and Josh as they do episode 38 of the Threshing Floor Podcast. They also talk movies, international Hummus day, and where to get great catfish and share what books they have been reading.
James tells us, when you are lead into tempted, don’t say – God is tempting me. Know where your temptations come from. Within us. Our flesh. Our desires. Our stuff.
That’s why we have to know ourselves.
What tempts you? Where are you weak? Where are you easily knocked off course? Where does trouble come for you?
Can economic prosperity force me to evaluate the violence in my own heart? Does education inevitably lead to shalom? Will outside investment make me selfless?
May 14, 2015 1 John 5:5 Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. CONSIDER THIS The world is filled with trouble. From the trouble
