This post was originally written and posted on May 30, 2016 by Tony Morgan, which you can find here. It takes courage to make the right decision before it’s the popular decision. “With support from Illinois freshman congressman Abraham Lincoln, John Quincy Adams forced the House of Representatives to repeal the so-called Gag Rule…
Foothills’ Proposed Mission Statement: Engage people to put Jesus first for the sake of others What is a mission statement (taken from Auxano, a Church Vision and Consulting group)? The Great Commission reworded for a unique context. It answers the question before all other questions, “What are we supposed to be doing?” It is a compass, a North Star,…
Recently I finished Chip Heath and Dan Heath’s book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die and they give six principles for making ideas stick that I found helpful. To preface, the Heath brothers do say, “there is no ‘formula’ for a sticky idea — we don’t want to overstate the case. But sticky ideas…
Foothills’ Proposed Mission Statement: Engage people to put Jesus first for the sake of others What is a mission statement (taken from Auxano, a Church Vision and Consulting group)? The Great Commission reworded for a unique context. It answers the question before all other questions, “What are we supposed to be doing?” It is a compass,…
Recently I finished Chip Heath and Dan Heath’s book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die and they give six principles for making ideas stick. To preface, the Heath brothers do say, “there is no ‘formula’ for a stickY idea — we don’t want to overstate the case. But sticky ideas do draw from…
Chip Heath and Dan Heath in their book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die discuss a principle called the Curse of Knowledge. The Curse of Knowledge is the difficulty of remembering what it was like not to know something. The importance of this principle is massive as we think about reaching people for Jesus.…
Chip Heath and Dan Heath in their book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die discuss a principle called the Curse of Knowledge. The Curse of Knowledge is the difficulty of remembering what it was like not to know something. The importance of this principle is massive as we think about reaching people for…
The Bible teaches that people are made in the image of God. What does this mean about our identity? It means two things: 1) our value is inherent, which means that we have value simply by being human and 2) our value is contingent, which means we’re utterly dependent upon God. According to the Scriptures,…
The Bible teaches that people are made in the image of God. What does this mean about our identity? It means two things: 1) our value is inherent, which means that we have value simply by being human and 2) our value is contingent, which means we’re utterly dependent upon God. According to the Scriptures,…
I love how Keller shows us throughout the Bible how everything points to Jesus. Let your heart be encouraged! Jesus is the true and better Adam, who passes the test in the garden and whose obedience is imputed to us (1 Cor 15). Jesus is the true and better Abel, who, though innocently slain, has blood that cares…
