Prayer together remains a vital means of God’s ongoing grace in the Christian life and for our communities. In Habits of Grace Mathis gives 5 principles when praying with others I found helpful and wanted to pass on. Make it regular. Let pray become a regular part of the landscape of your life with family and friends.…
Christian unity is both a present gift and future goal. “Christian unity is the state of being united to, alive in, and governed by, Jesus Christ our living Lord, in company with all other Christians, past and present, those now with Christ in the heavenly Jerusalem of Hebrews 12:22 and those on earth with us…
One of the disciplines of the Christian faith is remembering and reorienting your mind to the truths of what God does with your sin. Tim Challies wrote on this weeks ago that I’ll briefly summarize. He writes, God throws your sin into the sea (Micah 7:19) God treads your sin underfoot (Micah 7:19) God throws…
One of the disciplines of the Christian faith is remembering and reorienting your mind to the truths of what God does with your sin. Tim Challies wrote on this weeks ago that I’ll briefly summarize. He writes, God throws your sin into the sea (Micah 7:19) God treads your sin underfoot (Micah 7:19) God throws…
Obviously there are more than 8 Christlike qualities but Sam Crabtree in Practicing Affirmation focuses on these ones in particular: Truthfulness. Jesus is the faithful witness (Rev. 1:5), the most truthful being in existence, the One for whom it is impossible to lie (Titus 1:2). Obedience. Jesus is the most obedient human being ever to…
Obviously there are more than 8 Christlike qualities but Sam Crabtree in Practicing Affirmation focuses on these ones in particular: Truthfulness. Jesus is the faithful witness (Rev. 1:5), the most truthful being in existence, the One for whom it is impossible to lie (Titus 1:2). Obedience. Jesus is the most obedient human being ever to…
Preach. Put simply, “you learn to preach any preaching” (111) so preach. Study Preaching. A preacher should become a student of preaching, which means read books on preaching, perhaps take a class on preaching and listen to good preachers and ask the question, “what makes them good”? Focus on the message. H. B. says, “it…
First, what is a strategy? A strategy is a picture of how ministry fits together. It’s a pattern that demonstrates how the church will accomplish its mandates as it moves. It can be likened to a lazy river where there is constant movement in a believer’s life. What is our proposed strategy at Foothills? Worship – Grow…
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.…
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,…
Theology Along the Way 