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We don’t like things when they are “up in the air” do we? To be “up in the air” is to be uncertain or undecided about someone or something. We certainly don’t want uncertainty in Christianity do we….? But Abram left his family for uncertainty, Moses was sent to Pharoah to ask for the impossible, Joseph was abducted […]
Do you ever have those holy Saturday moments, when you don’t know whether your dream is alive or dead. In fact you suspect it is more dead than alive where it appears as if we are in a season of nothingness. There are times when I am doing my seminars and it appears as if I am […]
A Pastor today used a curious phrase about his retirement. I could tell he had been a good Pastor to his people but he said his leaving had raised the “ambient anxiety” of the congregation. This systemic and chronic anxiety in a church only spikes when the congregation is made uncomfortable in some way, like a beloved Pastor […]
Urgency is so important in the area of invitational mission. Jesus said that “the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few”. The harvest in our generation needs to be reaped. We need to encourage people to become invitational. To envision action rather than procrastination. To urge excitement rather than being apathetic. This is our […]
God chose us before the foundation of the world, thus we are in on the action, long before we have any idea that we are in on the action. We are cosmic! We cannot possibly be chosen just to have an escape hatch to heaven. No we are chosen for purpose. One of the purposes is […]
If you throw a pebble into the middle of a pond, you see the ripples radiate outward in concentric circles. These ripples take a ‘halo’ formation surrounding the ‘core’ of the stone’s path. The bigger the pebble, the greater the impact on the pond, both laterally, and vertically. We will never know the impact of an […]
In invitation often the heart and the mind disagree fervently our rational side wants to invite a friend but the other part our emotional side says no chance, “I might lose that friend if I invite them”. Our emotional side tends to win these internal debates, this is our built in schizophrenia. We can sing how […]