Whenever the inappropriate fear of people eclipses the appropriate fear of God, it’s a short step to image management and control tactics.
Our meetings ought to look more like, “Reporting in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through this ministry.”
The confounding logic of eternal life is this: Die before you die and then all is life.
Know the destination. Don’t sweat the details. I think it’s how the will of God works more often than not.
We must learn to simply, meaningfully, and regularly send one another out into the mission of the gospel.
What’s so amazing about Paul is he left churches he had planted all the time yet he never protected himself from the pain that comes from saying goodbye to deep friendships.
For Paul, sound doctrine and teaching were not mere matters of right and wrong but of life and death.
Listen Now! October 9, 2019 Acts 20:17-24 (NIV) From Miletus, Paul sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church. When they arrived, he said to them: “You know how I lived the whole time
Blessed are those who order their lives around this calendar first and let all the myriad of other calendars and dates and seasons find their ordering and priority accordingly.
Youth Ministry filled with endless talking just won’t get it done with teenagers—not in the Bible’s time, and not now.
Encouragement is the language of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit encourages us.
There’s usually an inverse relationship between the volume of the crowd and the power or truth of whatever it is they are getting loud about.
