Traditional ministry is action based. It follows the following progression: Action (starts with deciding what you want to do) Program (developing a program to accomplish the same) Mission (adapting that to your mission) Vision (basing your vision on your program’s potential) Formation (praying for God to bless what you have done) Passion-based ministry is God… Continue reading Traditional Ministry vs. Passion-based Ministry
Month: December 2010
Quoted: Waylan Moore on the Fruit of Discipleship
Our union with Christ makes possible a life through which others can be saved. When a tree is so full of sap that it can no longer hold it, the result is fruit! When a Christian is so full of Christ, others see him and hear about him and are then spiritually reborn into the… Continue reading Quoted: Waylan Moore on the Fruit of Discipleship
The Value of a Mistake
It’s a well-known phrase that “it’s better to learn from the mistakes of others than to make the mistakes on your own.” Certainly the lessons learned from mistakes, whether ours or others, can be considered valuable. What value can be placed on a mistake? Take into consideration the mistake that was made in the Garden… Continue reading The Value of a Mistake
Quoted: Charles Silvester Horne on Ministry
The great merit of Paul’s audacious policy was that he was a strategist who thought out his strategy on the actual field of war and not in some remote Jerusalem war office where parchment and sealing wax were more plentiful than experience and foresight.
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2 Kings 4:1-6 Luke 17:11-19 A message about the widow woman and vessels of oil. Likening her destitute condition to our condition of emptiness/hunger/need/desire, and the fact that, as long as there is yet a vessel to fill the oil will flow. How did she feel when she realized there were no more vessels to… Continue reading More
When You Drop The Ball
What else is there to do but… blame God? It wasn’t his own hands or the Pittsburgh secondary Sunday that foiled Buffalo Bills wide receiver Steve Johnson from hauling in what should have been the game-winning TD catch in the end zone. It was God. “I PRAISE YOU 24/7!!!!!!” the 24-year-old tweeted from his iPad… Continue reading When You Drop The Ball
Quoted: Gordon MacDonald on Character
The Character of a person is revealed in how he responds in moments of impossibility.
A Bride in White…
(Sermon seed by Tony McCall) An article on CNN.com details a recent shift in wedding preferences of brides choosing colored dresses over the traditional white. Instead of trying to fit a certain mold, Ariel Meadow Stallings cut up a lime-green prom dress she found on eBay, and paired it with an iridescent blue corset. After… Continue reading A Bride in White…