Passion Produces Tears My wife was giving birth to our first child and things didn’t go as planned. Emma got stuck and both my daughter and my wife were in trouble. It was a frightening time for all of us. But one of the things I remember most about those hours of uncertainty was seeing [...]
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Pray The Church To Life: Atmosphere
“O Lord God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your [...]
A Praying Church
My prayer life is anemic. This may surprise you. As an elder of the church, many might assume that my prayer life is robust. It is not. It is a land filled with distractions, sinfulness and apathy. In other words, I suck at prayer. I am guessing that your prayer life could use some work [...]
Ordinary Lives with Gospel Intentionality
Our Gospel Leader Residents at Redeemer have been studying what it means to live as ambassadors of the gospel. They have spent a good deal of time reflecting on the idea of OLGI—ordinary lives with gospel intentionality. Based on their study and missional experiences, some of our residents collaborated to write and create this post [...]
GC Leader PDP Resource Sheet
This resource is designed as a sort of Gospel Community Leadership development “cheat” sheet. We want to have many different resources available for training people toward GC Leadership. This document is designed to help you draw from a wealth of potential action items in order to develop your emerging leader’s GC Leader Personal Discipleship Plan [...]
Spirit Led Planning For 2012
Spirit Led Strategic Planning For 2012 As the New Year approaches many of us are thinking about what 2012 will look like and what 2011 was. This time of year I like to spend some devoted time thinking about the evidences of God grace in the previous year and also prayerfully seek how God wants [...]
History of Redemption: Blog Post 47
Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. – Jude 24-25 [...]
Summary of Paul’s Letters in the Establishment of Churches
Each of Paul’s letters served to establish, that is to mature or strengthen, each of the specific congregations he was writing to. While there are certainly levels of overlap, there are some distinct and helpful aspects of church establishment seen in Paul’s letters when considered chronologically. My hope is that reading the following summary of [...]
History of Redemption: Blog Post 46
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be [...]
History of Redemption: Blog Post 45
And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. [...]