Monthly Archives: July 2010

God Speaks Through Dreams

July 19th, 2010

“‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will [...]

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Posted in Boldness • Christianity in North America • Church Issues • Discernment • Faith • Godly Character • Leadership • Maturity • Obedience • Prayerfulness • Relevance • Supernaturalism

Tagged Bible, Charismata, Dream Interpretation, Dreamer, Dreaming, Dreams, Holy Spirit, Interpretation of Dreams, Joseph, Listening to the Holy Spirit, Revelation, Supernaturalism, Voice of God

What Being a Church Family Means, Part 3

July 16th, 2010

Life is most assuredly strange. In the course of this mini-series on being a church family, I ran across the following video by Mark Driscoll. This Seattle-based pastor has a reputation for being the modern Christian firebrand, dividing people into “love him” or “hate him” categories (kind of like yours truly). What he says in [...]

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Posted in Christianity in North America • Church Issues • Community • Godly Character • Maturity • Obedience • Oddities • Relevance

Tagged Body of Christ, Church Attendance, Church Issues, Commitment, Family, Maturity, Sacrifice, Self-Sacrifice, Service, Serving

What Being a Church Family Means, Part 2

July 14th, 2010

I finally got back to the second part of this short series (Part 1 here) on the Church as family. The irony is that some of the delay was due to family issues, both biological and Church. And that’s a good segue into what I want to write about today. What else derails the tidiness [...]

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Posted in Benevolence • Christianity in North America • Church Issues • Community • Dying to Self • Godly Character • Hospitality • Jesus Christ • Love • Maturity • Obedience • Oddities • Relevance • Simplicity

Tagged Body of Christ, Church Attendance, Church Issues, Commitment, Family, Maturity, Mess, Messiness, Pain, Sacrifice, Self-Sacrifice