I Am In Control

“Our fear is that a living God in not a God we can live with. God stuck between the pages of our Bible is a controllable God. We always have the option of snapping the book shut. It’s the living, breathing Jesus who is dangerous.” -Marianne Sawicki As I am fully in the throes of […]

Holy Living, Holy Outreach, Holy Work Ethic

  I was chatting with a friend the other day and he was talking about something a mentor had shared with him on how to live out his faith in ministry through The Salvation Army. It was simply: Holy Living, Holy Outreach, Holy Work Ethic. It certainly is a thought rooted in scripture. Holy Living […]

Is It Really This Simple?

“Jesus, undeterred, went right ahead and gave his charge: “God authorized and commanded me to commission you: Go out and train everyone you meet, far and near, in this way of life, marking them by baptism in the threefold name: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Then instruct them in the practice of all I have […]

Am I A Missionary?

  Whenever I heard the word missionary, the picture above is typically what pops into my mind. I was listening to a talk from Verge 2012 Conference today by a guy named Todd Engstrom. He gave a little different definition in his talk, here it is: “A missionary is someone who sacrifices everything but the […]

Consistent

Titus 1:2 This truth gives them confidence that they have eternal life, which God—who does not lie—promised them before the world began. When I listened to Titus 1 today, this verse struck me. The word I kept hearing was consistent. Paul is laying out his introduction to who God is, what he is about, and […]