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In my last post I began to explore the world of Frank Laubach as he explores life with God filling each moment.
The year is 1930 and his journey appears to be moving him from the known to the unknown, from what is stated and structured into what he could only imagine […]
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I am beginning to read Practicing His Presence, a book which draws together thoughts from Brother Lawrence and Frank Laubach.
This is going to be a signifcant read for me, methinks, and here’s why.
Some some years ago I was deeply affected when I first read of Laubach’s desire for closeness to God moment […]
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This morning I got to thinking about how the Newer Testament books were written within a lifetime - two to three generations. I’d been reading Paul’s words to Timothy about how he’d seen this sincere faith in his grandmother Lois and mother Eunice.
I find myself wondering if there is something significant […]
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In ‘being missional’ I mentioned four things that help us to make this journey from mission being something we do to be something we are.
The really exciting thing about this is that it says something about how the lid has been taken off the development of people in the churches.
For some five […]
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The word “missional” has now been in the dictionary for a hundred years.
It describes the way something is.
It describes the way someone is.
This is something I am finding to be so very basic to my own following of Jesus at the moment: it is the journey from thinking of mission something I […]
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I thought to take a moment and find out what you are reading at the moment. I’ve mentioned before how I’ve got some good suggestions for reading out of this in the past.
Here’s what I’m reading at this moment:
The God of Intimacy and Action by Tony Campolo and Mary Albert Darling;
Post-Christendom by […]
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I feel that Erwin McManus points out something very important for us when he states that the loves Jesus mentions in the greatest commandments are not sequential (see Stand Against the Wind): ‘it is love God and love others as you love yourself’.
I have met people who love formulas and clear steps […]
