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.
Whose Peace? Whose Prosperity?
Ezra 9:12 ESV Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever. Never seek their peace or prosperity. Never […]
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 […]
A Chance to Boast
So now here we are in a state that we can’t boast or celebrate any of our good deeds, because it’s not the outward deed that matters, but what you are on the inside. On Saturday, a guy was raking leaves at my neighbor’s house. I sat in my car, about to drive away, and […]
Lanterns, Torches, Swords
John 18:3 So Judas, having procured a band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, went there with lanterns and torches and weapons. They took lanterns because they walked in darkness and refused to walk by the Light. They took torches because they did not know the fiery Glory of […]
Walking the Path around a Convent in Ferdinand, Indiana
Sunday I took my two oldest sons to Family Day at the Monastery Immaculate Conception in Ferdinand, Indiana. My Aunt, who is in her 60s, has been part of the community there since she was 18. It’s pretty cool walking around such a place. I’ve taken my sons to St. Meinrad and we’ve snuck around, […]
Jesus is Preparing to Go – John 14
‚Äú‚ÄúDo not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father‚Äôs house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back […]
When Worship Becomes Profanity
And no, I’m not talking about saying cuss words in church… Our best effort is not what the Lord wants, Exodus 20:25 If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones, for if you wield your tool on it you profane it. Deuteronomy 12:8 You are not to […]
The Father Wants Us to See His Full Glory in Jesus
Here are some notes from John 11– v. 39, Jesus said “Take away the stone” – Moving a tombstone would have made a person unclean by the Mishna standards. there were Jewish leaders around that taught that very thing, so Jesus is immediately flying in their face. – Jesus was not concerned with the complicated […]
Jesus Takes us Fully Knowing Him VERY Seriously
John 11.5-611:5 (Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 11:6 So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he remained in the place where he was for two more days. John reminds us that Jesus loved them, before he drops the big SO bomb on us. Jesus was more concerned that the Father‚Äôs […]