Posts tagged ministry

Turning 50 hit me hard. Somehow, it felt a lot different than turning 40. “Over the hill” felt pretty much the same as any other …

Would your therapist be willing to tell you that a certain behaviour is morally wrong? What is the standard for this ethic?

What is the end goal of your therapy? Is your therapist looking beyond symptoms to address your fundamental character and your life after death, or is the goal simply to help you recover “normal human functioning?”

What is the source of your therapist’s authority? What causes you to trust them or to think that their advice is worth following?

Is there such a thing as a “call to the ministry?” If there is a call, what does it entail? What passages of Scriptures explain …

Hospitality is a beautiful calling, but sometimes the reality of our lives looks very different from the picture we have in our minds. We might …

The handwriting was already on the wall before the pandemic killed it. Attendance at the evening service of a typical Bible-preaching church in America has …

Sweet 16 Sixteen years ago, on a brisk October day, Debbie and I left the comforts of family, friends, and country to begin missionary life …

A major emphasis in 1 Corinthian 9 is to exhort God’s people to be willing to give up their rights for the sake of the Gospel. What does this mean for me?

Self-control, motivated by love for Christ and love for others, is an absolute necessity if we are going to make hard life decisions about advancing the Gospel. Indispensable to this self-control is grace from God to enable us to obtain and maintain it.

Defining a Philosophy of Ministry Every church, whether or not they understand or articulate it clearly, has a philosophy of ministry. A philosophy of ministry …

We know how Paul applied “being all things to all men” and “laying aside our rights” for the sake of the Gospel. We now need to consider ways that we as cross-cultural missionaries might apply these principles to our lives today.