We cannot “make disciples (Matt.28:19)” unless we are disciples, and we cannot be disciples unless we are willing to deny ourselves and take up our cross “daily” (Luke 9:23).
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Thought for the Day – Disciples
Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged deny ourselves, disciple, disciples, take up our cross on March 27, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Thought for the Day – A Way of Thinking
Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged prayer, submit, way of thinking on February 7, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Prayer should not be our attempt to get God to come around to our way of thinking, it should be our effort to submit ourselves to His way of thinking.
Thought for the Day – Best Version of Yourself
Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged best version of yourself, created to be, creator on February 7, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Becoming “the best version of yourself” is not necessarily the same as becoming who you were created to be. The latter requires the involvement of the Creator.
Thought for the Day – Restless
Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged diligence, diligent, diligently seek, rest, strive, work on January 31, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Perhaps the struggle to enter into the rest that God offers (Matt.11:28) is rooted in the failure to do the work He’s given us (John 6:29). While we need not strive for His approval, there must be diligence in our seeking (Heb.11:6).
Thought for the Day – Embodied
Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged embodiment, life, love, truth, way on January 16, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Jesus didn’t come to simply point us in the right direction. He is the embodiment of love (1John 4:16), truth (John 14:6), and justice (Ps.89:14). He is the way, and the life (John14:6) and the Word (John 1:1). Our efforts to know these things without knowing Him are futile.
Thought for the Day – The Boundaries of Knowledge
Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged faith, hope, humility, knowledge, love, perfection on January 8, 2024| Leave a Comment »
A lack of knowledge can ultimately prove to be fatal (Hosea 4:6), but knowledge without humility puffs a man up (1Cor.8:1), and knowledge without love amounts to “nothing” (1 Cor.13-2&3). When we come face to face with perfection whatever knowledge we have acquired will pass away (1Cor.13-8), and only the things rooted in faith, hope and love shall remain (1Cor.13:13).
Thought for a Day – Nay-Sayer
Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged commend, criticizing, nay-sayer, objecting, oppose, speaking against on January 8, 2024| Leave a Comment »
The problem with becoming a nay-sayer (i.e. constantly criticizing, objecting, speaking against…) is that what you oppose tends to eclipse what you might otherwise commend. People clearly understand what you hate but are unsure of what (if anything) you love.
Thought for the Day – Corrupted Systems
Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged corrupted, necessary evil, rationalize, Zeal on January 3, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Our zeal to usurp what we perceive to be a corrupted system often blinds us to the tainted nature of its projected replacement. Even when we recognize the flaws, we are prone to rationalize that it is somehow a “necessary evil” (Psalm 127:1).
Thought for the Day – Successful Ministry
Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged congregation, ministerial resume, ministry, religious leader, standard for ministry, successful ministry on December 18, 2023| 1 Comment »
Would any current religious leader aspire to have Jesus’ ministerial resume? After all, He started with a dozen men that no self-respecting church was likely to pursue. He traveled constantly, never really establishing any set location. His followers rarely seemed to grasp the things He said. Other ministers constantly talked about Him behind His back. And though He had a couple of well attended camp meetings, by the end of His three year run, none of His congregation was willing to be seen in town with Him. By our standards for ministry, He could hardly be viewed as a “success”.
And yet, in His final days He could truthfully declare, that He didn’t do anything that He didn’t see the Father do first (John 5:19), and that if you had seen Him, you had seen the Father (John 14:9).
In light of these proclamations, I would suggest that this is ultimately the Father’s standard for ministry, and if that’s so, we need to take a hard look at what we’re considering “successful”.
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