Tag: #bgbg2

  • Jesus wrecks the 10 Commandments

    Why the 10 Commandments are ALWAYS more than just 10.

  • The Gift of Rest

    This is about trust. Sabbath is trust.

  • The Way of Hope

    We can’t elect our way into goodness.

  • Advent: The reminder to quit being such suckers!

    It’s our reactions that are too often shameful or puzzling or based on fear that should give us pause. We don’t pause. We just react.

  • Praying down strongholds like ISIS

    This is a time I am so glad to be anchored in the Scriptures: We give thanks to you, God. Yes, we give thanks!     Your name is near. Your marvelous deeds are declared. God says, “When I decide the time is right,     I will establish justice just so.     The earth and all its inhabitants will melt,     but I will keep…

  • Why study the Word?

    We need depth. When we get upset over Facebook posts and false headlines… friends… we need depth.

  • Good bye cruel world!

    Today’s reading for MULTIPLY discipleship is Galatians 6. And what comes up AGAIN? The cross. (It seems to be all over the New Testament… and very hard to avoid.) 1 Corinthians 1 on Sunday… Galatians 6 today… and the cross. But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the…

  • The very heart of transformed thinking

    Rom. 12:9 is crucial to transformed minds.

  • Pastor Appreciation

    This month is “Pastor Appreciation” month. Since I pastor a church I absolutely treasure and love, I think EVERY month is “pastor appreciation.” To think we had to come up with this kind of “celebration” years ago because there were churches who didn’t appreciate their pastors breaks my heart. Today we will have a time to say “thanks” as a church, but…

  • Let us keep the main thing the main thing

    We are called to GROW UP. To mature. To lead others to maturity.