Take an Annual Spiritual Assessment
|
|
CANTON, Ga. (BP) --This column was published at Baptist Press, bpnews.net. Used by permission.
Years back, the church often sang the hymn "Trust and Obey." It offered a great truth: To be happy in Je
Read more…From a friend/colleague . . .
Read more…Dear Friends and Family,
Being on sabbatical has given me significant opportunities to spend extended time with God, meditate on scripture, and reflect on my life. I have had days of significant pain and days of grea
|
Los Vino by Michael Miloserdoff
Have you ever wondered what the word abide really meant? To me, it sounds different than just living. It sounds, more intimate, more like a habit of being. It creates in me a feeling of comfort and joy, of closeness
Read more…I don't know about you but while I was being discipled, I never heard anything about my mentors going through a crisis of faith. Sometimes I think that believers go through crises of faith and perhaps fall away because they don't know how to get thr
Read more…Let me share with you a few of the things I believe I personally heard the Lord speak to me as I was traveling recently.
I believe the Lord told me my first responsibility in anything I do is to know him, not know about him, but to know him in such
Read more…As a pastor, I often wind up fighting bouts of depression...anyone else battle with this? Just wondering if I am the only one, and if not, any advice on dealing with this would be helpful.
Read more…
|
||
|
||
|
Considering that the vast majority of people in the early church could not read. I am wondering how you would change your way of discipling people if you were dealing the same scenario?
It seems that so many churches are following the American schoo
Read more…Forgiveness is Not saying in any way that a wrong is right. Forgiveness does Not take away the consequences of the wrong either with the victim or the doer of the wrong. Forgiveness does Not solve all the relationship problems caused by the wrong. Fo
Read more…All these years it has never occurred to me, that the ancient monastic vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience were a direct response to the issues of money, sex, and power, until I read 'The Challenge of the Disciplined Life' by Richard J. Foster.
Read more…I've read the book Every Man's Battle By Stephen Arterburn, Fred Stoeker, Mike Yorkey. I've found a lot of really helpful tips and advice in it, but yet I feel like the book focuses a little too much on my effort and "purity techniques" and not enoug
Read more…