Accountability can make you do some crazy things. Two weeks ago, the church that meets in our home discussed accountability. In order to make it practical, I challenged everyone to try and pray with someone, preferably who doesn't know the Lord, during the week, and said that we would report back the next time we… Read More
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Multiplication tools: practice
If you want to become proficient at a skill, the answer lies in practice. Photo credit: Morrow Cove (Creative Commons) Musicians rehearse, athletes practice, anyone who wants to become proficient at a skill puts in hours per day. They perform the same drill over and over again until it has become perfectly natural. I’m sure… Read More
There are good invitations, but if you want to see multiplication, there might be better ones: Photo credit: Tracy Hunter (Creative Commons) You’ve shared your story, using it as a bridge to a presentation of the good news of the Kingdom. What now? It’s unusual for someone to say, “How can I become a Christian?”… Read More
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Easter greetings!
This weekend celebrates the most important event in history. Check out this video (you'll need to click on this link to view it:
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Power in an unlikely package
Here’s an outstanding Youtube video from the TV show, “Britain’s Got Talent.” What makes this video so remarkable is the power of an extraordinary voice coming from a very ordinary-looking teenager who is shy and awkward and appears totally out of place on the big stage. It reminds me that God’s power can be demonstrated… Read More
We in the church sometimes live as though Jesus died to give us meetings, and meetings more abundantly. Jesus died to give us life. Being a disciple of Jesus is not measured by how many meetings we go to–however informal they may be. It's measured by obedience to Jesus and his commands. It's demonstrated by what… Read More
While I was in the UK two weeks ago, a not-yet-Christian came to the church that meets in our home. She is friends with some of the students who attend regularly. Apparently it was a very ordinary time. But at the end she was asked, "Would you like to give your life to Jesus?" "Yes,"… Read More
Are we building our own luxurious houses or are we building God’s Kingdom? (Haggai 1) Are we more interested in holding a correct theological and ecclesiological position, or is our concern for the unity of the body of Christ? Do we believe that our way of being church is the right way and that everyone… Read More
Photo credit: phill.d (Creative Commons) The way this country is trending, unless the Lord intervenes, it may not be long before the USA is a post-Christian nation. Only 4% of adults currently have a Biblical worldview as the basis of their decision-making. We are potentially only a generation away from being like many countries in… Read More
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If I were a missionary…
Photo Credit: rogiro (Creative Commons) Some people might say that Tony and I are already missionaries. Firstly, we have crossed cultures from the UK to the USA. (I sometimes wonder why here to the affluent West which is already so heavily Christianized when we would have willingly gone to any country in the world.) And… Read More