Strengthening Faith, Love, and Hope
Strengthening Faith, Love, and Hope
In this month’s Ziklag meeting (our monthly men’s gathering) we reflected on the powerful, stirring words from a literal knights’ code of honor from the Middle Ages, and since it continues to stir my own soul, I wanted to pass it on to all of you. Enjoy! To never do outrage or murder Always to flee treason To by no means be cruel but to give…
Well, unfortunately another little woodland creature decided to die inside the wall of Pastor Jerry’s office and reek out our entire building on our church property. It’s the second time this has happened in the past couple of months (Jerry’s office both times), and each time the little animal’s demise has sent us staff members scurrying for nice smelling candles and fans. Sometimes the only…
Do you like being in the ministry? Is it the greatest job you could ever imagine having, or is it vastly different from what you expected? Does it routinely bring life to your soul, or is it slowly crushing the life out of you and your loved ones? You’re probably as familiar as I am with some of the gruesome statistics that plague us ministry leaders.…
Your strengths, gifts, and talents–all of the things that make you well-suited for your particular calling–have a flip side to them. And it’s crucial that we understand it because just as our gifts can bring us success, their flip side can be our undoing. On the one hand they make us effective as servant-leaders, but on the other hand they make us vulnerable to mindsets,…
Have you ever had one of those days where no matter how hard you worked you felt like you accomplished nothing? More often than not, those frustrating scenarios are the result of working on the wrong things. Jesus said to Martha in Luke 10:42, “Only a few things are necessary, really only one.” If that’s true and there are really only a few things that are…