Recently we returned from mission work in Romania.  A portion of our time was spent ministering alongside of a e3 missions team.  I wanted to share with you soem of the testimonies that came from that campaign.  Here is a link to the e3 Partners Minisitry website with information about future trips to Romania.   

Jim Daly, President of Focus on the Family, serves on a panel for theWashington Post's On Faith blog, a weekly "conversation on religion and politics."  Recently he wrote a column responding to a comment made in the New York Times which stated: “faith and prayer just won’t cut it. In fact, they’ll get in the way.”

1. God is always at work around you.
2. God pursues a continuing love relationship with you that is real and personal.
3. God invites you to become involved with Him in His work.
4. God speaks by the Holy Spirit through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church to reveal Himself, His purposes, and His ways.
5. God's invitation for you to work with Him always leads you to a crisis of belief that requires faith and action.
6. You must make major adjustments in your life to join God in what He is doing.
7. You come to know God by experience as you obey Him, and He accomplishes His work through you.  

These are the seven realities that Blackaby talks about in Experiencing God.  Which one do you connect with most?  Number 5 for me.  Do you agree with these statements?  Which ones give you difficulty?  Did I mention number 5?    

 This coming Sunday, April 17, 2011, is Palm Sunday.  But, what does that really mean?  It is the Sunday before Easter.  But my question is, does Palm Sunday have any significance for you?  If it does, what is that significance?  

Saw this article by Phil Cooke and thought I would post it here for your comments: 

I’m a preacher’s kid, so growing up, I sat on a church pew every time the doors were open (and they were hard wooden things back then.)  Mom was pretty strict about attending church, and I’ve sat through about a million worship services, weddings, funerals, Vacation Bible Schools, Sunday School classes, revivals, youth rallies, and more.  Along the way, my mom had some pretty tough rules that have mostly fallen out of fashion since those days.  But after a few decades, I’m wondering if they weren’t so bad after all.  Let me know if you think my mom was nuts, or maybe on to something: 

 

The third message in the One Month To Live series is “Love Completely”.  You can watch it HERE.  

 

I used climbing as an example - and even used my chainsaw tree climbing gear to demonstrate by rope climbing up to the ceiling.  I wanted to demonstrate how important the Blake’s Hitch was to me being able to ascend the rope.  

 

1 Corinthians 1:18

“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the Power of God.” 

Our first message in the One Month to Live series is titled Living the Dash.  I wanted to use the new blog to open up some dialog about this message and this concept of living the dash.  You can watch the message here as well as see the outline.   

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I was concerned at first by how far back Winter began his look at the future of Missions.  I would say that about three-quarters of his essay is related to missions past instead of the future of missions.  I will also state that by the end of his work, I get it.  It was his desire to lay the foundation for understanding where missions have been to describe what needs to happen in a meaningful way.  I think he does a good job of relating this information.

 

Primarily, Winter’s concern is that the reader understand the beginning of the evangelical movements and that many directions were traveled in pursuing the understanding of the gospel of Jesus Christ and how He expected the church to respond to His kingdom work.

 

Is it social responsibility or spreading the understanding of salvation through Jesus Christ?  The direction of the evangelical movement has clearly taken either one of the other of these paths.  I believe Winter used the history of faith and his own mission work to show...