I'm participating in one of the "Good Morning Girls" bible study groups on Facebook. It's with friends from Kinston and I thought it was a good way to stay connected. It's a read through the bible one chapter at a time. It'll take a few years, but going more slowly is what I prefer. I never liked those read-in-a-year plans because they seemed ( Read more... )

Your dad and I are strict parents. And I like that. We have very clearly outlined stances on lots of various things. We feel that, when you catch problems while they're little, you're less likely to have to deal with larger ones later on. What some people view as overkill, we view as exactly what God wants us to do so that you will be strong in Him ( Read more... )

Almost everything wrong with the church can be summed up in this Facebook status by a teenage girl... "for 30 hours starting march 5th i will go without food, to raise awareness about world hunger and poverty. my church is sponsoring the event and we will be having lots of fun bowling and having lock-ins ( Read more... )

My cousin (of sorts) is a pastor in another state... and he uses Facebook as a way to stay in touch with his congregation. Today, his status message was about Rob Bell... it linked me to an article that made me want to throw up. Not that anything was new information... just that his message isn't being discerned as alarming. Here's a couple of ( Read more... )

I'm learning more about what I believe church SHOULD be... as opposed to what people would LIKE the church to be.

subculturen : a social group within a national culture that has distinctive patterns of behavior and beliefs ( Read more... )

This Sunday, Jason said something about "faith the size of a mustard seed" being understood more as "you can have faith THAT little and God will still work through you" rather than "with faith no bigger, you can do great things". Minor adjustment of thought, but profound.

When I was doing a study last year (or whenever), the one verse that hit me more than anything... the one I had already heard a million times... was the one in Hebrews 11 (?) that said nothing but faith pleases God. Nothing I "do" pleases Him... nothing I don't do. Nothing I say... nothing but faith. Acts are nothing, unless born from faith. Words ( Read more... )

About 90 percent of Christ's ministry was accomplished "on the way" to something else. He was never rushed or in a hurry. He allotted enough time to meet the needs of the people He encountered without then being "late" to care for the needs of the people He was heading to see. How many of us can say that we have time "on the way" to do anything ( Read more... )

A week ago Saturday, Jeff and I attended the first of a year-long a leadership training seminar that our pastor and his wife are holding at our church. Based on what I walked away learning, the purpose of this part of the course was to take the word "leadership" and strip it down to the biblical definition rather than continue to hold it up to the ( Read more... )