In ministry you will fail. Not because you missed your calling… but because you found your calling. I love these thoughts from Wayne Cordeiro in his book Sifted: Pursuing Growth through Trials, Challenges, and Disappointments: The truth is that you will fail. You simply won’t have what it takes when you begin. You may have…
“Joe Montana’s leadership was grounded in this key characteristic: Despite the fact that he was the starting quarterback, with all of the trappings that come with that position, he never played favorites or believed that a person’s reputation, status, or credentials entitled him to special treatment. When you worked with Joe, you were treated as…
Gordon-Conwell’s Center for the Study of Global Christianity calculates that Christians sent out approximately 400,000 international missionaries in 2010.
God has a master plan to unite all things to himself (Ephesians 1:10). Christ is at the head of this plan (Ephesians 1:22). His strategy involves the church fulfilling this plan (Ephesians 1:23). Christ has so identified himself with his church that it is said to be his very body, much as Adam described Eve…
Matthew Jeffers, a senior acting major at Towson University in Maryland wrote a letter to the Baltimore Ravens, his favorite NFL team, entitled “A Reason To Win.” It was a perspective of his struggles with Skeletal Dysplasia, in relation to the struggles of winning a Super Bowl, with the ultimate lesson that, “Life is not…
“The great Pioneer Missionaries all had ‘inverted homesickness’ this passion to call that country their home which was most in need of the Gospel. In this passion all other passions died; before this vision all other visions faded; this call drowned all other voices. They were the pioneers of the Kingdom, the forelopers of God,…
Three great quotes from this week: We had the opportunity to see 42 (The Jackie Robinson story) this week—an amazing story of a man of unspeakable character and strength who changed history. My greatest quote from the movie is when Jackie says, “God built me to last.” God gave Jackie the physical ability to perform,…
We have way too much fun at summer camp! View on Facebook.
“The Prophet of the Poor”: born into poverty, and worked in the midst of poverty his whole life. When he died, 150,000 people filed by his casket, and 40,000 attended his funeral.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson My hero is my mom. As a teenager, she became a mother of two and had to drop out of high school. My father left her when I was 6-months-old, leaving my 17-year-old mother the…