A few years ago, my wife and I were on a business conference trip with the company I worked for at the time. One evening, we sat down to a group dinner that included some strangers at our table. Well, they were strangers for about 5 minutes – we quickly clicked with this other young couple and had a very engaging conversation for about 60 minutes. Topics varied, and eventually we unintentionally steered the conversation…
After going through Bible School and serving in ministry on several different levels for several years, I have spent some time now away from what many would call “full time ministry”. Four years ago I made a decision to focus my 9-5 efforts in other directions, while still serving God but not in a “positional” or staff kind of way. When there’s no paycheck attached to your relationship with God, or your capacity for ministry,…
Recently, I began working on the Youth Alive team – a US Missions orginization. I’ll spare you the details, but if you’d like to know more, click here. It’s definitely led me to think differently in some areas…one being money. Missionaries live by faith off of monthly support – duh. They have a huge responsibility to be good stewards of the money their supporters are sacrificing for them…but, aren’t we all? Aren’t all to be…
Don’t call me a complete heretic here… …but have you ever thought of God being weird? Not weird like the homeless lady who walks around in the park all day with 16 shopping bags, or like the guy who rolls down his window to yell things at you… …Weird like this. Or this. I think these show some weirdness of God. I like weird. Weird is good. Weird means not normal. Weird means different. Weird…
