What to Give the God Who Has Everything
With what shall I come before the Lord and bow down before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with...
View ArticleEvery Day is a Church Start!
All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. Acts 2:44-45 All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one...
View ArticlePreparing for the Wind
Now about the collection for the Lord’s people: Do what I told the Galatian churches to do. On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with your income,...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Payoff?
I only know that in every city the Holy Spirit warns me that prison and hardships are facing me. However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the...
View Article“Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine…”
And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’ Then he said, ‘This is what...
View ArticleOur Own Undercover Boss
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fireprepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty...
View ArticleCounting Noses or Changing Lives?
Tuesday Re-mix - And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the...
View Article“Look at Us!”
Peter looked straight at him, as did John. Then Peter said, “Look at us!” So the man gave them his attention, expecting to get something from them. Acts 3:4-5 The short, two-block walk in downtown...
View ArticleThere is No “I” in Church
When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “you made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them. You spoke by the Holy...
View ArticleBeing One of the Seven
In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Hellenistic Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of...
View ArticleBeing Ananias
Then Ananias went to the house and entered it. Placing his hands on Saul, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord—Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here—has sent me so that you may see...
View ArticleThe Two Kinds of People in Your Church
Tuesday Re-mix - Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any...
View ArticleThe Long Journey Preparing for Jesus
The beginning of the good news about Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God, as it is written in Isaiah the prophet: “I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way”— “a voice of one...
View ArticleThe Measure of Your Ministry
Tuesday Re-mix - Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you? You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known...
View ArticleNo More Excuses
Tuesday Re-mix - And they exceeded our expectations: They gave themselves first of all to the Lord, and then by the will of God also to us. 2 Cor. 8:5 I think we, as church leaders, are guilty of...
View ArticleWelcome to Ministry. What Exactly Did You Expect?
Tuesday Re-mix - When Jesus saw the crowd around him, he gave orders to cross to the other side of the lake. Then a teacher of the law came to him and said, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you...
View ArticleHow Much Do You Trust Your People?
Tuesday Re-mix - Jesus called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out impure spirits and to heal every disease and sickness…As you go, proclaim this message: ‘The kingdom of...
View Article…And Some Doubted
Tuesday Re-mix - Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Matthew 28:16-17 You are probably...
View ArticleIn Way Over Our Heads
What is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. Psalm 8:4-5 Back in 1985,...
View ArticleShepherds Among Us
Tuesday Re-mix - The words of Amos, one of the shepherds of Tekoa—the vision he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king...
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