We are going to get thought after thought today. When a thought rises is it something you need to remember or forget?
If I could offer individuals, families, staffs and churches a gift I would give them time. It wouldn’t be time to do more but time to decide what you are going to do.
People are blogging and tweeting and facebooking and IM-ing and texting. We pass memos on stenos. We give and get reports. In the midst of all the info we kill each other more, abandon and abuse more, destroy and destruct more…In the cluttering, compacting age of info were did all the wisdom go?
Just dance. Don’t worry about who is watching. It doesn’t matter. You just dance. Move your feet. Move your arms. Feel the beat deep in your soul and respond. Honor it. Follow it. Move everything you have. Yes, people are watching. Let them watch, be the one they can follow.
Here is the point, subjectivity can never win over objectivity. It IS all about what “IS”. Threatening to sound like a country song, don’t say you love me if you don’t. Don’t say you want what is best if you don’t. Don’t say you are trying harder if you don’t. Words matter and words that do not correspond to the reality they are projecting misdirect and miscommunicate.
I was raised with church. I am not referring to the building but the fellowship. The church is the fellowship of believers. It is a part of my life. I have given my life for it and to it. I believe in its importance and am committed to helping it grow to be healthy and effective. Why? Christ calls the [...]
The church is supposed to be the beacon of light to people wandering in the darkness with bloody thumbs and chagrinned foreheads. While the world screams, “there must be a better way,” the church is to be declaring, “We have a better way.”
