Turning Our Resources Inward
Dying churches use their resources for their own comfort, rather than to serve others.
Dying churches use their resources for their own comfort, rather than to serve others.
When protecting insiders is more important than welcoming outsiders, death is inevitable.
Dying congregations look backward instead of forward.
Will we seek God’s will or give evil the victory?
What would it look like to be a people who welcome the gifts God sends us?
What does it mean for a people committeed to being heard to call Christ the “King of kings”?
Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it legitimately. This means understanding that the law is laid down not for the innocent but for the lawless and disobedient, for the godless and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their father or mother, for murderers, fornicators, sodomites, slave traders, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching that conforms to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me. I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because he judged me faithful and appointed me to his service, even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a man of violence. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief, and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. – 1 Timothy 1:8-14 A friend of mine recently sent me a very thought-provoking article with the title, “Why Discipleship Is the Key to Ending Abortion.” Though we have …
What would it look like to lift up God’s Word in our heart rather than fossilizing it in our laws?
We all want to be the hero of our own story. Unfortunately, every one of us has played the villain.
The judgment of God isn’t pleasant to think about, but the idea that God makes no distinction between someone who suffers for righteousness and someone who cheerfully inflicts suffering is too terrible to contemplate.