Devotion
Heaven’s Dynamite
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-113 (Leadership Issues) HEAVEN’S DYNAMITE by Mike Endicott I don’t know what church life is like in your part of the world but here in the UK subjects like Mission and ‘different ways of being church’ seem to crop up at regular intervals with some great justification. Numerically we are on the […]
Don’t Let Discouragers Frustrate God’s Plan
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-115 (Devotional) DON’T LET DISCOURAGERS FRUSTRATE GOD’S PLAN by Peter Kennedy “Then the peoples around them set out to discourage the people of Judah and make them afraid to go on building. They hired counselors to work against them and frustrate their plans during the entire reign of Cyrus king of Persia […]
The Room
The story behind the story “The Room”. 17-year-old Brian Moore had only a short time to write something for a class. The subject was what Heaven was like. ”I wowed ’em,” he later told his father, Bruce. “It’s a killer, It’s the bomb. It’s the best thing I ever wrote.” It also was the last. […]
Forgiveness
“Some labor and struggle hard to earn forgiveness, but better than these is the man who forgets the wrongs done to him. Forgive quickly and you will be abundantly forgiven. To forget wrongs is to prove oneself truly repentant, but to brood on them and at the same time to imagine one is practicing repentance […]
Dare!
Dare to look foolish. The real fools are those who never attempt anything. Dare to make mistakes. They are the best teachers you will ever know. Dare to take action. There’s a risk you may fail. Yet if you take no action failure is a certainty. Dare to be fully alive. Dare to speak your […]
Love For Others: A Hasidic Story
by: Brian Cavanaugh S A wealthy Jewish merchant treats a poor old man with rudeness and disdain as they travel together on a train. When they arrive at their common destination, the merchant finds the station thronged with pious Jews waiting in ecstatic joy to greet the arrival of one of the holiest rabbis in […]
Come Down, O Love Divine (Pentecost)
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-097 (Devotional) COME DOWN, O LOVE DIVINE (Hymn, plus notes on Pentecost) You hear it all of the time. “Change is the only constant.” But what about Solomon? Didn’t he say, “There is nothing new under the sun.” Of course, it is easy to agree with Solomon when you are aware of […]
Spirit Or Scorpion
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-098 Pentecost Sunday 19 May 2002 Reading: LUKE 11:5-13 – SPIRIT OR SCORPION? (From ‘Encounter with God’ Bible Reading Notes) ‘If you pray without serving, your prayers will be in vain. If you serve without praying, your service will be in vain.'(1) For many Christians the day of Pentecost and its meaning […]
If God Is Like Jesus
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-099 IF GOD IS LIKE JESUS, NOTHING IS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE! From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. Many, even of the authorities, believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they did not confess it, for fear… […]
Listen To How You Talk
“Pay attention to the language you use. How often do you disempower yourself by negative self-talk? How often do you disempower another by speaking to them as if they were dumb, lazy, or inadequate? How often do you speak to yourself that way? How we speak to ourselves and to others identifies our fears. What […]
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