After being in the ministry for ten years I can honestly say that nothing bothers me like competing for the attention of people. In this world in which we live it seems there is always something more important than church. I was discussing this with a friend of mine yesterday. When we were growing up [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Tired of Competing
Posted: September 30, 2009 by passionburnswithin in Life, Ministry, Philosophy, Religion, Uncategorized0
My friend Chris has posted a blog on change. You can read it here
I have been praying lately about other ways God can use me to further his word. After thinking and praying about it long and hard I have decided to test the waters of the speaking realm. So if you or your church, youth ministry collegiate ministry, BCM or FCA would like to have me in [...]
Psa 44:21 Will not God search this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart I was in a facebook convo the other day with a lady that I knew when I was in High School. (btw it was very strange for me to call someone one my age “lady” and not “girl”). It [...]
What have we really figured out?
Posted: September 1, 2009 by passionburnswithin in Ministry, Philosophy, Religion, UncategorizedThis video segues nicely into the post I have been wanting to write for some time As a minister in a pretty traditional church it goes without saying that there are a lot of things that we do that have “always been done” that are not necessarily effective. When I look at the landscape and [...]
