One of the passages I keep coming back to as a corrective to today’s strong focus on the role of the CEO, entrepreneur, and Lead Pastor in driving the vision for the church or organization, are the words below from Dietrich Bonhoeffer. >May we always hold our plans loosely and with open hands. May we […]
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I e-mailed in the second book to Thomas Nelson Publishers today. It was fun, this time around, to focus on discipleship and the pursuit of God from a contemporary perspective. Stay tuned–this book will be out in January 2015!
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“I find that doing the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about his plans.” George MacDonald
I love this quote by the late theologian Richard Niebuhr. “Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institution is static, whereas its parent movement has been dynamic; it confines men within its limits, while the movement had liberated them from the bondage of institutions; it looks to the past,
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“If anyone thinks he is Christian and yet is indifferent towards his being a Christian, then he really is not one at all. What would we think of a man who affirmed that he was in love and also that it was a matter of indifference to him?” Søren Kierkegaard
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As the new year begins and I’m making plans for the year, it’s become clear to me that there are three kinds of people in this world. Those who create… those who copy… and those who criticize. After over a decade in ministry it’s obvious that some people are passionate and always seeking to improve, innovate, collaborate and create. I’d
Guest Post by Peter Goodwin Heltzel Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s classic Discipleship continues to inspire my own walk of Christian discipleship. I am struck by Bonhoeffer’s total surrender to God and commitment to the Confessing Church movement, keeping the flames of prophetic Christianity alive in Nazi Germany. The Protestant Reformers Martin Luther and John Calvin forged a theology of
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Every year as I reflect back on the past year and work on plans for the upcoming year, I remember the dream I wrote for Antioch in the Summer of 2006. God has done amazing things in 2013 and I’m looking forward to 2014. —————————————————————— OUR DREAM :: THE VISION THAT DRIVES US It is the
One of the concepts that C.S. Lewis used regularly as a literary device was that of Mercenary Rewards. The mercenary, for Lewis, was the perfect symbol of someone who doesn’t act for true love or desire for the thing itself, but for the reward he receives – much like mercenaries don’t care about the cause
Mae Elise Cannon serves as the Senior Director of Advocacy & Outreach – Middle East for World Vision USA. She is a minister, writer, and academic who cares deeply about God’s heart for the poor and the oppressed. She is the author of Social Justice Handbook: Small Steps for a Better World and Just Spirituality: How
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