Irresponsible Responsibility?
This morning on the way in for our men’s bible study, I was listening to a song called “Irresponsible” by JUDAH. and J. Monty (the song is a bit outside of my normal listening patterns, but I kind of like it…no worries if you do not!). Anyway, the chorus kind of hit me this morning – especially as tomorrow is Thanksgiving (a day where we give thanks, and are reminded to live as grateful people):And I just wanna say that
We Must Learn To Pray. We Have To.
This past Sunday, along with this week of Step Groups (from Discipleship Essentials), is all about prayer. If you missed the sermon, you can check it out right here, but the main point was this (in the words of Tim Keller): We must learn to pray.We have to. At the end of the sermon, I suggested that if you struggle with ‘rudderless’ prayer - or just want some structure or help for your prayer, you could try following a guide or something along those
Visions…
A guest blog by Shawn Blythe. Our Bible reading for this week takes us to the book of Revelation. It is a book centered around the vision John experienced while exiled on the island of Patmos. Although I have personally never experienced a vision that I would attribute to God (most of my visions are likely attributable to eating entirely too much before bedtime), the use of visions in the Bible to communicate important information from God is well documented. Old
Survival of the Fittest
I usually find our Wednesday morning men’s bible study conversations fascinating. Today was no different. So much so that it inspired what I wanted to share with you today.With the men’s bible study, we’ve been slowly working our way through Paul’s most ambitious letter – Romans. Today, we spent a lot of time on two deep, challenging, and rich verses from Romans 12: 1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living
The Next Four Years
Well, it’s Wednesday. The election is over, and someone won…or maybe they’re still counting votes – I don’t know…because I’m writing this on Tuesday morning before the polls opened or a single state was called! So I don’t know whether Harris or Trump (or the third party surprise write-in!) will be our President for the next four years. But regardless of who our next President will be, what will we be for the next four years? We will be the church of Jesus Christ. We will