Categories: food for thought, politics? oh puh-leeze.
Categories: food for thought, fun, Meanderings (look it up), What the heck was THAT?
Categories: changing mindsets, food for thought, Meanderings (look it up)
Categories: food for thought, Meanderings (look it up)
Categories: current issues, food for thought
This post is my contribution to Blog Action Day 2008. This year’s topic: poverty.
I feel like the global issue of poverty is one of those things I’m least qualified to talk about. I am not an activist, I’ve not been part of many relief ministries, except for one I’ll talk about momentarily. I’ve spent most of my life sheltered in the church, allowing someone else to deal with those issues. The most connection I’ve had with poverty is a measure of personal experience–which means I have spent significant amounts of time not having enough to make ends meet, knowing what it is to be in need. Some days I’ve awakened not knowing how my family would eat that day. However, even that sense of lack I’ve felt (which was painful enough) does not even begin to compare with what others in my own country have felt, let alone in third world countries. So even with the limited personal experience I have, my own lack of action makes me feel unqualified to tell others what to do.
Categories: changing mindsets, food for thought
In my continued ponderings on the idea of being “called”, and looking with a fresh set of eyes at my own sense of “calling” as a believer, it made sense to do a little word study on the words “calling” and “called” in the Bible. At first look, I was honestly surprised.
Here’s what I found:
Categories: food for thought, Meanderings (look it up)
I have been rambling on a bit about how my perception of one’s “calling” is changing. Time to ramble a little more…
I’ve gotten a lot of “prophetic words” in my lifetime. And a lot of it has been what I’d call “fluff” (some might have stronger words for it, but that’s what I call it, anyway)–just ear-tickling, good-feeling-evoking, ego-puffing-up words about destiny. (When you find yourself in a platform ministry position, it’s amazing how many people want to prophesy over you.)
Categories: food for thought, Meanderings (look it up)
Categories: food for thought, Meanderings (look it up)
This might come out more like a paraphrase, but there’s a quote in Wild at Heart by John Eldredge that goes something like this:
Categories: changing mindsets, food for thought, worship
I don’t know how long this series will go. I’ll keep posting on this topic periodically until I run out of things to say about it. 🙂 If you’re just joining us…links to the previous six parts are at the end of this post.
As a worship leader in institutional church settings, I admit I bought into the “show-must-go-on” mentality. In one sense, it was a coping mechanism, because if I let my teammates take the morning off because “I just don’t feel like worshiping today”, or “I had a really bad week, and I’d feel like a hypocrite if I got on the platform today”–I’d probably never have had a quorum. There sure were a lot of times when I didn’t feel like getting up on that platform.