Over this year I have been visiting a friend in Wandsworth prison. Just about every week I have gone to the prison, sat in the visits hall and we have talked and prayed together. Even though he is the one who’s been stuck in prison, I have been uplifted and encouraged so much by our [...]
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Quote from the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit: “…Christian leadership is not an end itself… It’s about mission, about helping others come to know Christ and transforming society evermore into the likeness of how God in his kingdom would want it to be. So it’s critical that when we’re working with and developing younger leaders [...]
A.W Tozer writes this in ‘The Pursuit of God’. Some things haven’t changed: “In this hour of all-but-universal darkness one cheering gleam appears: within the fold of conservative Christianity there are to be found increasing numbers of persons whose religious lives are marked by a growing hunger after God Himself. They are eager for spiritual [...]
Imagine Jesus returns to heaven and is interviewed: Interviewer: You suffered much and died for the whole world. What have you done about making known that love to all the people in the world? Jesus: I have asked Peter, John, Andrew, James and others down there to make it known, and for the people they [...]
Good stuff here: What are we trying to do as church? Play at church’s got talent, or make disciples and make a difference. From @edstetzer http://ow.ly/3nHs6: Rather than seeking to be the next big thing – the church version of “America’s Got Talent” – let’s become the next transformative thing. Instead of our neighbors saying, [...]
