[1] After he had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. [2] Now a centurion had a servant who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him. [3] When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking […]
WCAGLS14: Grander Vision, Bill Hybels, Don Flow, then others
This was like a montage of speakers all talking about faith in the workplace. It was really good and full of Biblical stuff as each of these people shared their real-life, tangible and practical ways of working by faith in their daily job.
Faith and Authority from Keith Hueftle's book on Grace
From The Trouble With Grace by Keith Hueftle Under orders, and with confidence in the person’s authority giving the orders, you might expect to do such a bizarre, inane thing. But this is not a call to presumption. Jesus is not asking to work up a so-called “faith” – self-generated – in order to make […]
WCAGLS Session 12: Henry Cloud: The 3Ps of Leader Burnout
Session 12: Henry Cloud They bring Henry Cloud in at the end to help you deal with everything you’ve learned. How in the world do you survive when you live halfway between (you wish halfway) where you are and where you want to be? Leaders take ownership of things. They take responsibility for things. Sometimes […]
Bitter confessional religious literature
My Take on Christian-Speak
It seems like a lot of people are talking about the silly way Christians talk lately. Some of it is from some recent videos on YouTube, some of it is in trying to talk about being Missional at some recent conferences like Verge and Exponential. The thing is, we invent new definitions for things when […]
Phenomenal Freedom in having no regard for Yourself
Anybody See Any Faith?
Bad News about Hell and the Newtown Shootings
This past week there were 20 kids shot in a school, and I think 8 teachers. It was the second worst mass shooting incident in the US. I looked up on youtube and saw a couple videos of the type of gun the guy used. It’s pretty horrible. You no longer think that Afghanistan and […]
What got me out of bed this morning
I snoozed with my iPhone alarm this morning from about 5:00 until around 5:30. At that point I opened up my YouVersion Bible app and started reading the reading from yesterday (which I fell asleep reading last night) in Joshua 16 & 17. I remembered reading this last night, and came across similar statements a […]