Great Section on Change from "The Forgotten Ways" by Alan Hirsch
A couple years ago I was reading “The Forgotten Ways” by Alan Hirsch. At some point I stopped. I’m not sure why. I remember around that time I was getting really frustrated with the way church was and I was reading a lot of books about the problems with church but I couldn’t find much…
Spurgeon quoted by Dale Beaver: The Hard To Pull Bow
This was in Dale Beaver’s sermon from 11/18/12 at CFC. We weren’t there on Sunday, but I listened to some from the atrium as my 3rd son practiced being a ring bearer at a friend’s wedding. The next morning I tuned in via YouVersion Live and read this quote: “We cannot draw the bow of…
Be A Powerful Miracle in God's Hands
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle. Phillips Brooks US Episcopal bishop (1835 – 1893) I have been praying…
Short Definition of the Kingdom of God
Where “On Earth as it is in Heaven” happens. I just wrote this in a BIble Study workbook to answer the question “What is the Kingdom of God?”
Global Leadership Summit 2011, Part 3: Brenda Salter McNeil
When you go among people that are so radically off from you culturally, it takes a lot of work to figure out what discipleship looks like in their culture. (personally I’m still trying to figure this out in American culture!)
…This was a great moment and I think I would have done well to just go and pray for a bit, or have all of us pray for a bit, but conferences are what they are, and when McNeil was done they launched some cheesy video advertising something.
Global Leadership Summit 2011, Part 2: Leonard A. Schlesinger
(Might have something to do with the fact that I’ve become an entrepreneur in the last year and a lot of what he said was really promising and exciting, vs. the usual song you hear when you are starting your own business that has a repeating chorus singing “you will fail, you will fail, you will fail.”) … I think they would have benefited a lot from just focusing on the next month rather than thinking they had to discover their lifelong vocation at 22. 
When you fail at something, like say, running a coffee filled backpack business, you learn something that nobody else knows.
God's Eager Hospitality
I’ve been reading “The Trouble With Grace” by O. Keith Hueftle and it is really really good. Keith shows a real depth for God’s hospitality as it shows His character. It’s not just a hospitality of “if you come, I’ll take care of you” but a pursuing, hungry hospitality that tracks you down and then…
Vital church life is vital
It’s only by being vitally and organically connected with other members of the body in a living way that we experience the fullness of God. -Jesus Manifesto by Frank Viola and Leonard Sweet Let us not think that we’ve cornered the market on Community with what we do on Sunday mornings.
The Holy Spirit is the Church's Life
“If the church will return to acknowledge that the Holy Spirit is her strength and her help, and if the church will return to give up everything, and wait upon God to be filled with the Spirit, her days of beauty and gladness will return, and we shall see the glory of God revealed among…