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Refreshing Prayer
This weekend our church held a prayer retreat. This is our second year doing this and I find them so refreshing. We have no agenda. It’s corporate prayer, worship and waiting on God. We don’t know where we are headed in a particular hour. While it can sound a little scary not having an agenda, or even boring because we…
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Refreshing Prayer This weekend our church held a prayer retreat. This is our second year doing this and I find them so refreshing. We have no agenda. It’s corporate prayer, worship and waiting on God. We don’t know where we are headed in a particular hour. While it can sound a little scary not having an agenda, or even boring…
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Does the Church Shoot Its Wounded?
I am truly curious about reactions to this statement from Ted Haggard: “The church has said, ‘Go to hell.’ The church chose not to forgive me, but instead to exile me,” he says. If you have followed Ted Haggard’s story, as pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs to his rise as president of the National Association of Evangelicals,…
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Does the Church Shoot Its Wounded? I am truly curious about reactions to this statement from Ted Haggard:“The church has said, ‘Go to hell.’ The church chose not to forgive me, but instead to exile me,” he says. If you have followed Ted Haggard’s story, as pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs to his rise as president of…
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The Contemplative Stream Our LIFE Group has been exploring Richard Foster’s book, Streams of Living Water. I have attached session notes on our church website, but wanted the opportunity to expand a little more on different sessions through this blog. Foster gave the Early Church example of St. Antony. There are many websites giving highlights of Antony’s life. Athanasius wrote…
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Is Bigger Beautiful? When it comes to ministry, the Lord continually works on my ego. I wrote earlier on a passage in Luke dealing with children and greatness. Well, Luke saw fit to put ANOTHER passage about children in his gospel. GREAT! A devotional I ran across has been helpful to me concerning the “bigness” craze we so often crave…
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Is Bigger Beautiful? When it comes to ministry, the Lord continually works on my ego. I wrote earlier on a passage in Luke dealing with children and greatness. Well, Luke saw fit to put ANOTHER passage about children in his gospel. GREAT! A devotional I ran across has been helpful to me concerning the “bigness” craze we so often crave…
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Martin Luther King Day He was one of the finest orators we could ever hear. This is his last speech before he was assassinated.
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Martin Luther King Day He was one of the finest orators we could ever hear. This is his last speech before he was assassinated.
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The Word in Worship I don’t particularly care for the “slideshow” but I love this song and this choir.
