Archive of "Missional Living" Category
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What’s for Breakfast?? (Thoughts on Selfishness)
It seems to me that the world trains us to be pretty selfish, individualized people. Thomas Merton writes about this as he describes the problem of pride,
“The self must be treated as if, not merely in feeling but in …
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Hola! Send Us to Guatemala!
This summer we (both Melanie and I) will be heading to Guatemala City with ten other people from our church. From June 20-26 we will be serving some of the poorest people in the world in Central America’s largest slum …
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Barna Describes Casual Christians
George Barna, in a recent interview sent to me from your friend and mine JR Briggs, says the following when talking about the group he calls “casual Christians”…
Casual Christianity is faith in moderation. It allows them to feel religious …
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The Mob.
Who do you get when you take a poor person in a slum in Ndola Zambia and give them…
a house,
a fenced in back yard,
a two car garage,
cable television with a DVR,
two cars for that garage,
and a job that pays …
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Talking About Money in the Church (Part 3)
Over the last few weeks I’ve been writing a bit on how I have been talking through 2 Corinthians 8 with our community during our offering time. (You can read the others posts here) The last two time we …
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Live Blogging: Financial Freedom / Budgeting Seminar with David Briggs
Notes….
The average households under 35 are saving -16% of their income.
Financial freedom has nothing to do with our income.
The law of guaranteed wealth: Spend less than you make for a long period of time.
Man, these powerpoint slides are from around 1980 or …
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Super Christians? Nope, Just Normally Obedient.
We’ve spent the last couple days hanging out with Tim and Jenn Fidanzo who are from Portland, …
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Does God Close Doors? Or Are We Scared of Difficulty?
You may have heard the saying, “when the going gets tough, the tough get going.” Well a simple search of the internet tubes you’ll find that there are many other versions of this.
For example, when the going gets tough…
the …
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The Connection Between Debt and Mission.
I’m becoming convinced that in suburban America one of the things that hinders our ability to respond to God’s call on our lives is money (and the mishandling of it). Too many followers of Jesus are so busy trying to …
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Light Bulbs and Really Big Rooms
Sometimes I feel like we start life sitting in a dark room that is full of unlit light bulbs, except for one. This lone bulb gives off just enough light to see your immediate surroundings. With this light we see …
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Bowling for Mediocrity
I have never really liked bowling. Well, I guess I have only kind of liked it. It’s always been one of those things that constantly makes me want quit. I can’t tell you how many times I leave one or …
