I had a meeting yesterday with two really dedicated missionaries in the El Paso area. They run a food bank for a local colonia (unincorporated community) just outside El Paso. Every Tuesday, they give out beans and rice (an average of 900 pounds per month) along with other grocery items. During this time, they have [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Beans and Rice
Posted in Missions, Motivational on February 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Grace and a Bicycle
Posted in Formation, Grace on February 25, 2010 | 4 Comments »
My brother and I are very close and always have been. I cherish our friendship and the relationship with which God has blessed us. But, as with any relationship, we have had our disagreements. Fortunately for us, ours happened when we were kids.
One time in particular comes to mind in which my brother instilled in [...]
Exercise Those Muscles
Posted in Formation, Motivational on February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I have had a renewed realization that I need to be getting exercise. It really hit me a few weeks ago when I took the boys for a suicide ski trip to Ruidoso. We skied all day and then made the four hour drive home. By the time I got out of the car at [...]
Leaders Aren’t Born, They Form
Posted in Leadership, Motivational on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Leaders aren’t born, they form. I truly believe that statement. Certainly, people are born with certain skills, passion and gifts that help them down the road to leadership, but much of what makes a leader is learned and experienced.
The most important key to leadership is trust. Do people trust you? There are libraries of leadership [...]
Father, Mold Me
Posted in Formation, Grace, Leadership, Missions on February 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This morning I spent some time looking back through Brian McClaren’s book, Finding Our Way Again. The book deals with regaining a sense of the contemplative life – the life that spends time in the interior aspects of our being. McClaren does a great job reminding us that our focus on our relationship with God [...]
Cancer of Complacency
Posted in Church, Community, Formation on February 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
During my prayer and reading time this morning, I was struck with an idea and I can’t let it go. As I pray for our church and the entire movement of Christ followers, I am reminded that a true follower of the Way should be fully committed to living for Jesus and loving as he [...]
Just a Snapshot
Posted in Formation, Hope, Motivational on February 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This morning I heard a song I have never heard before, Before the Morning, by Josh Wilson. There is a line in that song that has really stuck with me, and in fact, is the title of the album, “life is not a snapshot, it might take a little time but you’ll see the bigger [...]
That’s Gonna Leave a Mark
Posted in Leadership, Motivational on February 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
When I was 12, I played baseball – first base. I really enjoyed it but my career came to a close one afternoon when a fast grounder came right down the first base line. It was coming so fast I had to field it behind the first base bag. You guessed it, it hit the [...]
True Community
Posted in Church, Community on February 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One of the catchiest catch-words in church circles today is “community.” But what does it mean – what does it look like?
Last night in our study, In The Dust of the Rabbi, we talked about what it was like in the first century in a Greco-Roman world to be a Christ follower. It would have [...]
Worship Can Get Messy
Posted in Community, Formation, Motivational on February 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In my prayer and reading time this morning I got all the way through one verse in Romans (now you can see why it is taking me multiple years to make it through the book – I’m up to chapter 12 now).
Romans 12:1 tells us that we should consider God’s mercy – that undeserved gift [...]
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