Sometimes…
things are not as they seem…
Archive for October, 2007
30 Oct
become my Digg friend….
I signed up for a Digg account in order to start sharing the interesting links that I find. I’m going to submit a few links each day that I find interesting.
If you’d like to keep tabs on what I add, here’s my profile – it might also be worthwhile to add me as a friend [...]
29 Oct
Declaring our Freedom….
We all are born oppressed. We are people who are enslaved by evil. We are bound by the chains of desire, hate, ignorance, addiction, and brokenness.
But it is in declaring ourselves Christian that we declare ourselves free. We are no longer slaves to this world, but we are citizens of the Kingdom of God. We [...]
26 Oct
How much should I give…?
C.S. Lewis writes:
I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our [...]
25 Oct
sin management
“most of church is concerned with sin management.”
~Dallas Willard~
do you think this is true?
if so, do you think that it is good?
do you think that the church should mostly concerned with “sin management?
24 Oct
bless back project
Elevation Church in Charlotte, NC is kicking off a capital campaign and they’re doing it in a very different way. They kicked it off by igniting the congregation with the Bless Back Project
To kick off the Bless Back Project, each attender was handed an envelope containing either 5, 10, 15, 20, 50, 100, or [...]
22 Oct
some people still think global warming is a myth????
It seems that some of the world’s population still believes that global warming is a myth. (many – but not all – Conservative Republicans seem to fit this category). I heard a university professor refer to global warming several times and each reference was followed with a sort of chuckle.
My dad seems to have thought [...]
19 Oct
Questions for any ministry to answer
I work with a fledgling ministry and in our formative meetings we had to answer some very defining questions about our ministry. Here were some of them:
What other ministries are overlapping w/us?
In what ways are we different?
How can we partner with that ministry? or How can we work alongside them instead of against them?
What has [...]
