‘Do We Really Need to Wage War Against Fellow Believers?’
May 5, 2009
‘It seems to be a rather common thing,’ says Carla Rolfe, ‘that when Believer A disagrees with Believer B, they take to blogging or facebook, twitter or myspace and just chew them up and spit them out.’
“I Can’t Call You a Missionary”—ouch
April 27, 2009
By Missionary Confidential
One of our supporters showed up last week. We barely knew her, but she was planning a vacation to our mission field and thought it would be great to stop by and visit. Having gone through this before, we knew the drill what we would be asked and which areas would be key to show our supporter.
Because of the distance from where she was staying, an overnight stay with us made the most sense and we were happy to accommodate. We met up with her and began the tour. First we showed her the church that we work with, which is a Gothic-style, small building in need of repair. Despite the improvements and maintenance needed, it is a beautiful building, complete with stained-glass windows of angels and mortals looking up to heaven. Being American like us, our supporter was astounded by the church, partly because there aren’t too many like this in our home state.
After showing the surrounding areas and explaining the spiritual need of the country, we continued on to our house. As she walked through our place, it was then that she made the statement, with a smile, “I can’t call you a missionary!”
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‘Should a Christian Become Good Friends (Not Just an Acquaintance) with Pagans?’
April 20, 2009
Perry Noble begins post series: ‘Four Reasons People Attack’
April 14, 2009
Listen to Your Lady!
March 28, 2009
Produced by Central Christian Church in Las Vegas, Nevada
(Video HT: COLLIDE)
Frustrated goals? Here is one solution…
March 17, 2009
By Phil Monroe
Let’s admit to ourselves that we carry a large number of goals for other people. We wish and desire for them to change their ways. Life would be so much easier if my son…my wife…my boss…my pastor would only…
This is especially true in the counseling office. People come to counseling to find a way to fix a problem (person) in their life. They may well recognize their own need for change but commonly find their attention turning to the one person causing them great relational pain. Counselors are no less capable of being frustrated as well. We have goals for our clients–ways we want them to act. When they do not accept our goals or are not able to fulfill them to our egocentric demands, we too can be frustrated.
Here is one solution that may provide you with less frustration:
Make your goals things that you can meet on your own …
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Please, Lord! Prove my point …
March 16, 2009
By Trevin Wax
“Man, who made Me a judge or arbitrator over you?”
- Jesus, to a man in the crowd (Luke 12:14)
As Jesus taught the crowds about the kingdom of God, a man called out and asked Jesus to command his brother to divide his family’s inheritance with him.
The man surely thought himself correct regarding the family dispute, and knowing that Jesus held authority in the mind of his brother, he figured he would use Jesus to get his own way. The man wanted to end the estranged relationship he held with his brother by calling for Jesus to issue the final decree of division - proclaiming his point of view and thus winning the battle over the family’s money.
I fear that too often we act just like this man. We take minor and petty disagreements with our brothers and sisters in Christ and begin to see them as major differences …
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Dan and Sally Relationship Advice - Episode 1 Communication
March 11, 2009
(Video HT: girltalk)
Stop the Slide
February 17, 2009
When you notice something in your life or organization starting to slip and slide, address it immediately. The sooner you confront it, the less inertia you’ll have to deal with in order to regulate and reposition.
If one of your team members shows up late to a meeting for an invalid reason, address it the first time it happens. Stop the slide before the other people in your meeting start to follow suit, and you have a full-blown epidemic on your hands …
Have you ever been afflicted with BHHS (Bless Her Heart Syndrome)?
January 29, 2009
When to cut an email conversation short, or ignore it altogether
January 16, 2009
Jay Adams (HT: R. Scott Clark)
It’s not you, it’s … well, I guess it is you
December 19, 2008
Guys, see this post at The Art of Manliness on How to End a Relationship Like a Man.
(HT: Steve Watters)
Use Twitter
December 2, 2008
JollyBlogger David Wayne asserts that Twitter might not be all that bad, citing another blogger, ‘Dane,’ who points out that, contrary to conventional (Christian?) thinking, superficiality undergirds healthy relationships:
“Relationships are rarely built solely upon the shoulders of conversations that quote-unquote matter. My best and closest friendships are founded on lives lived together—and we would have particularly tepid lives if we hesitated to let the other know: ‘Dude! I had the best chorizo burrito this morning!’ or ‘I just got back from seeing Before Sunset and it’s everything I could want from a sequel!’”
Rhett Smith has gone a step further, rolling out a video and three hyper-links in a bid to win more folks over to Tweeting.
The Dane’s blog.
Rhett Smith Twitter.
My Twitter.
[Dude, a chorizo burrito sounds pretty good right now! - HC]
