HOW TO TALK ABOUT JESUS (WITHOUT BEING THAT GUY):PERSONAL EVANGELISM IN A SKEPTICAL WORLD By Sam Chan If you are looking to grow in personal evangelism, if you want to open wider your eyes to the mission field around you, this is the book for you. In How to Talk About Jesus, Sam Chan provides a very practical look at learning to live evangelistically. For Chan, … [Read more...] about How to Talk About Jesus (Without Being That Guy)
Learning from the Ant
"Go to the ant, you slacker! Observe its ways and become wise. Without leader, administrator, or ruler, it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food during harvest." - Proverbs 6:6-8 (CSB) These verses reveal three lessons we can learn from the ant… 1. The ant works hard. Ants are always busy. You see them all over the place, scurrying around in search of … [Read more...] about Learning from the Ant
Learning from Locusts
Meet the wise locust: "[24] Four things on earth are small, but they are exceedingly wise...[27] the locusts have no king, yet all of them march in rank..." (Proverbs 30:24, 27, ESV) What are locusts? Locusts are a type of grasshopper. But they aren’t just any old grasshopper; they do something pretty interesting: they swarm. Like a swarm of bees or a flock of birds … [Read more...] about Learning from Locusts
Administry
In the church, there is an aversion to administration, and understandably so. It is in the hirings and firings, budget squabbles, and strategic planning where contention often raises its head and the church seems the least spiritual. But administrative, executive functions within the church need not be evil or even a distraction from the mission and ministry of the … [Read more...] about Administry
Dumbphone for the Spiritual Win
In an earlier post, I mentioned John Mark Comer and his call to silence and solitude. I wanted to follow up that post with a very practical step you can take: make your smartphone a dumbphone. How to Turn Your Smartphone into a Dumbphone These recommendations come from Comer himself... He also suggests no texting and driving, putting the phone to bed before you … [Read more...] about Dumbphone for the Spiritual Win