Just One Path Following Jesus
They symbolically left their old way of life. They broke with the pasttheir past vocation, their sense of self, and their identity and fully embraced the future with Jesus. Thats what following Jesus does.
They symbolically left their old way of life. They broke with the pasttheir past vocation, their sense of self, and their identity and fully embraced the future with Jesus. Thats what following Jesus does.
With comfort dogs Louie and Jackson, the church not only helped community members recover from the tornado, but also visited public schools, nursing homes and hospitals with the animals.
The most effective strategy for moving people forward in their journey of faith is biblical engagement. Not just getting people into the Bible when theyre in churchbut helping them engage the Bible on their own outside of church, which is key to developing spiritual fruit in church.
Disagreements in years past would have been kept inside the church, but with the advent of social media, negative feelings spread like wildfire to a broader audience. While leaders cannot control what others say, they can control how they react when learning to lead through adversity.
We often shy away from spiritual conversations, but the best way to have a spiritual conversation is to start one.
I can easily get distracted by the demands and burdens of this world and lose my thankful heart. So, one way I do this is to place things in my path to remind me of what (often who) I have for which to be thankful.
Ask yourself, "Who is in my neighborhood thats not in my church, and what are the barriers keeping them from feeling welcome in our multiethnic ministry culture?"
Debunking Our False Assumptions
The weird thing about hangovers is that I adapted to them. They set the tone for the day: the muscles governing my movement would be sore, the head housing my mind would ache, the seat of my heart would feel broken, and the voices of my soul would speak only shame. My spiritual awakening journey has been one of profound transformation.
So what are those end-of-the-end events? Jesus told us with great specificity how to understand when we are in the end times. So much so that the passage found in Matthew is known as the little apocalypse.