Posted in missional on Apr 29th, 2010
I don’t claim to be an expert on this. If anything, I’m the non-expert because I tend to have different tastes and viewpoints from people around me… So in a sense, I ought to be incapable of being relevant to most people, but I found a hack, a work-around. Deep withing the bowels of Scripture [...]
I know you’re supposed to hate paying taxes, but let’s try to think differently for a moment. I propose that in a perfect world, if humankind had never sinned – we’d still have taxes. Sure the tax system would be better, more equitable, more efficient, but we’d still pay taxes. Jesus was living under a [...]
Posted in missional on Apr 7th, 2010
The one thing we need more than money (especially when we’re poor), is the Gospel. Now many will disagree, but let me explain… I believe in the value of social services and hands-on ministry to people in need. But for the poor in a money driven society, I believe that the Gospel message is more [...]
Posted in life skills, missional on Feb 16th, 2010
If God has a ministry for you right now – some way in which you are uniquely placed or uniquely equipped to serve… then one reason you might not be able to figure out what it is, is because you’re confusing your ministry with your skill set… At some point in your life God’s ministry [...]
Posted in missional on Jan 21st, 2010
There’s no reason why you should watch this video of a puppy imitating a whistling sound -other than it freaking cute! What would happen to the the Church if people like you and me didn’t find the unique ministry that God has for us? (See a couple of posts back for what I mean by [...]
Posted in life skills, missional on Dec 15th, 2009
Or “why we don’t have a big flat screen TV…” Or live in a luxury building with doormen, or spend a lot on transportation or expensive vacations, etc… Not that there’s anything wrong with those things… But we can afford more of those things than we have – so we choose to do with less. [...]
Posted in life skills, missional, random thoughts on Aug 3rd, 2009
Maybe it’s because we live in a materialistic society, but we tend to think more about the things we really *want* and less about the things we really want to *do.* So you wouldn’t say it out loud but you probably have a pretty clear idea of what kind of car you want to drive, [...]
Posted in life skills, missional, work on Mar 27th, 2009
How would Jesus want you to invest? Most people I know who dabble in the market just want to make some quick money. It feels like a million years ago, but I can still remember the tech bubble and how it made so many rich; and so we want to get on that ride again. [...]
Posted in missional on Dec 10th, 2008
Perhaps the news lately should encourage us to think about the church’s (that is, “OUR”) role in blessing the poor. Say “church” and “poverty” and the first thing that comes into people’s minds is “charity.” That’s not a bad thing, sharing resources is one way of loving people and it acts as a safety net [...]
Posted in missional, random thoughts on Aug 14th, 2008
Many people who love God would never (in a million years) think of becoming a missionary. But that is what God wants us to be (in a broad sense): missionaries, here, where we are. Of course as missionaries we do many different things for the betterment of society and the people we want to serve, [...]