Imagine a guy named Smalls is your leader. Smalls has caused you pain, and he admits it. Smalls says, “I’ve made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you. Because if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained? And I don’t […]
“It was to spare you that I refrained from coming again. Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith. For I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you. For if I cause you pain, who […]
God destroys and thwarts and makes foolish our prized popularity and paragons of wisdom and eloquence. God offers stumbling and folly. God chooses what is foolish, weak, low, and despised. What you GOTTA KNOW [bigtime know! …ONLY know …resolve to know nothing other than this know] [1Cor.2.2]!?!?!? How you gotta be with people… in weakness […]
Yesterday I shared some crazy stuff that came up in my morning meeting with The Boss. Specifically, some crazy stuff that He was saying in the book of Acts. Today …the craziness continued. For example there was a big meeting where some people were upset because certain traditions and rules weren’t being followed (and – […]
In early December we are imaginatively immersing ourselves in the story of ACTS during my morning meetings with The Boss. Here are some of the crazy things we are seeing… In chapter 14 The Boss says, “In past generations I allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways. Yet I did not leave […]
I went to Stacks this morning to meet a friend for breakfast. Upon being seated I overheard a party in an adjacent booth talking about giving and getting; and folly and wisdom and discernment. One guy was saying, “I have discerned that it is wise to give my time and energy and attention to TEAM […]
This scene from The Count of Monte Cristo (by Alexandre Dumas) will help you tremendously as you imaginatively immerse yourself in the story of Joseph, son of Jacob (especially as you seek to understand Joseph’s shrewd, sharp, and subversive interactions with his perfidious brothers). The procureur entered with the same grave and measured step he […]
Counselor: How are things? Martha: Not great. Counselor: [silent gaze…] Martha: Well, you know how I’ve been really jazzed about Jesus? Counselor: Yes… Martha: Well, I invited Jesus to come have dinner at our house, and I expected my relative(s) to help me serve Jesus. I was humbly and honorably committed to the rigors and […]
I just read through Ecclesiastes, and I was confused! As I ponder the proverbs and epigrams of The Preacher I find myself wondering what Jesus made of these aphorisms? Or how did Daniel interpret and apply these adages and axioms? Or how did Edmond Dantés puzzle over these teachings in Ecclesiastes? Here are a few […]