I Have Calmed and Quieted My Soul 1 O Lord, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. 2 But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a […]
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 […]
My notes from More a.k.a. Restoration Church on December 2, 2012
So the name of the church is going to be Restoration Church, since they decided that nobody really wanted “More!” Church. I thought that was pretty funny. Either way, whatever you call it, church or not, here are my notes. This week I came unprepared, so they are on the backs of my IamDanSullivan.com business […]
Galatians 6 and Excitement About the New Building
The other night I got to announce that the Evansville Rescue Mission is moving to the old VA clinic on 500 E. … There were a lot of questions, but then I got to preach for a few minutes to finish my mini-series on Galatians.
Video Blog Post: Changed Life at the Rescue Mission
Since last November, I’ve had the absolute honor to be a part of the lives of men that stay at the Evansville Rescue Mission. One of them stopped me in the parking lot today to talk since he’s going to be leaving this week and we might not meet up again.
7 years of blogging!
I saw some stuff lately about blogging advice and how to craft your posts and how to phrase a catchy headline and I thought, “I’ve been blogging for a long time and not worried about that stuff!” … To all of you that have been around over the course of the last 7.5 years, thanks.
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.
Jesus' Confident Arrest
[4] Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, “Whom do you seek?†[5] They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.†Jesus said to them, “I am he.†Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them. [6] When Jesus said to them, “I am he,†they drew back and […]
'Church' is cultural
I think there is so little detail about what CHURCH is in the Bible because how people worship God is as different as the cultures in which they live. When a missionary goes into uncharted territory, they do not prop up their video screens and the powerpoint and start singing Tommy Walker songs. (That would […]
No More Hollywood Sermons
Last weekend I taught 3 times at a Jr. high – Sr. High retreat. there were 5 nazarene churches, so there were about 50 kids and 50 leaders. It was a very good time. I‚Äôm learning that I don‚Äôt have to have a big finish when I teach. The big finish, the big closing statement, […]