Were you the kid who asked 450 questions a day? Was your favorite word ‘why?’ Do you enjoy word games? Like studying and investigating facts? Then you just may have a ‘Teacher’ gift. The Teachers have a keen intellectual capacity. They’re the ‘mind’ of the Body of Christ and a good deal of your […]
Archive | August, 2019
Parts – Am I Your Servant? Part 3
Ever been embarrassed by someone who always took on the jobs nobody else wanted, constantly volunteering for whatever comes along … even hard work. You feel scrounged because you assume that if you loved Jesus you would be more like them. Welcome to the world of the ‘Server.’ (Romans 12:7) They run toward words […]
Parts – Me a Prophet? (Part 2)
When we hear the word ‘prophet’ we think immediately of the Old Testament characters who would walk up to a wicked king and say, ‘Thus saith the Lord …” and foretell his demise and destruction of his kingdom. These were powerful figures who spoke powerfully for God. If they spoke something and it didn’t […]
Sum Of the Parts … Part 1
The average church congregation is multi-faceted! There are young, old, men, women, children, teens and in-betweens. Some are of means, others would be of means if they only had the means! There are Democrats and Republicans, Independents and non-political. (And we don’t make one group sit by itself.) There are high tech people, low […]
A Fresh Heart Prayer Devotional – July 2019
“When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven.” Nehemiah 1:4 KJV Nehemiah was confronted with a crisis of national proportion. Jerusalem was in shambles and God’s people had a future that looked awfully bleak. Nehemiah’s first response to […]