Communicating the process of change and where to go from here is much harder than I thought. I take my hat off to how Cedar Ridge Community Church did it in the light of Brian D. McLaren’s growing role to the wider Christians community. The caption put up was this: The Church was not created…
I Have Only Today
My Life is an instant. An hour which passes by; My life is a moment Which I have no power to stay. You know, O my God, That to love you here on earth – I have only today. ~ Therese of Lisiux Therese is famous for her “Little Way” of prayer in which she…
2 Asian Leaders Before us
SUNDAR SINGH: Most influential Indian Christian ever lived DR JOHN SUNG: Greatest Chinese evangelist of the 20th century. Dr. Hwa Yung, Director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in Asia at Trinity Theological College. (who taught me Christian Theology & Asian Theology in seminary and got us to read his Mangoes & Bananas?…
Leaders in the Missional Church
This is an article by George R. Hunsberger, Gospel and Our Culture Network Newsletter june 1998 newsletter volume 10 number 2 now has got me re-fining & re-visioning my leadership again (& again). This card which a member gave me during my ordination serves as a wonderful reminder that whatever “leadership” I’m working through must…
Opps! … Argghhh! … phew!
Got this amazing unsinkable boat manouver via Jason Clark. It was a fantastic ice breaker for the morning before my Bible reading & prayer … its a wonderul picture antidote for leaders in a “tough” spot!
No longer a salesperson …
One gem that caught me this morning from Bevan’s book Models of Contextual Theology on his introduction to what he calls the Countercultural model: _____________________________________ The gospel, rather than being a list of doctirnes or moral principles, is considered as a story to be told and witnessed to rather than something to be argued for…
The Father’s Love Letter
To open the envelope click here for the song version or here for the narration version
Money & Ambition
It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it is good, too, to check up once in awhile and make sure you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy. — George Horace Lorimer Christianity is the foe not of ambition, but of wrong ambition; not of covetousness, but…
Church Dating?
Read this linked from Richard Vincent’s Putting Small Groups in Their Place Blog: Put simply, “[b]elonging happens when you identify with another entity – a person or organization, or perhaps a species, culture, or ethnic group” (p. 25). People are looking for healthy relationships, a home, a place to belong, a group with whom to…
Richard Foster & Renovare
I think Foster’s book Celebration of Discipline was really instrumental in my journey for a more wholistic discipleship (and also view on Spiritual Disciplines – Discipline was a good word after reading his books!), his book on Prayer gave me the vocabulary to understand and explore the variety of heartfelt communion with GOD. And Streams…