These families are already beat down…obviously. Let’s do what we can to at least keep them dry. Buying a tent and providing shelter for a family there only means skipping a meal out or a night at the movies for us and makes a HUGE impact.
Jacob was hacked. Laban offered Jacob a new deal – Rachel in exchange for seven more years of work! And Jacob went for it. This time though, he made sure that he would get Rachel at the beginning of the seven years…
In: Family|GOD|Leadership
5 May 2009I recently finished Anne Jackson’s book “Mad Church Disease” and it has me thinking about burnout. I have always used an idea that I heard Rick Warren say a long time ago: Divert Daily Withdraw Weekly Abandon Annually Pretty simple. But what does each of those look like? I’m going to take some time this [...]
In: Creativity|Leadership
13 Mar 2009I’m trying to process and form this idea. Help. Here it is…as best as I can explain it: When people are talking to you, giving you advice, even praying for you, they naturally filter you through their own experiences, preferences, dreams, talents, etc because those things are their only frame of reference. But we are [...]
