Last week in our Oikos ministry school, I was tasked with giving a session on intimacy with God. Fellow missionary and teammate Shaun Wissmann has basically come up with the entire curriculum for our discipleship school, with the oversight of our fearless leader Mark Burgess. Then, they tell me what I'll teach. :)
So far, this has worked wonderfully.
Since I felt like this is a subject I could approach from the head easily and wanted to make sure I was living it, I tried evaluating my own spiritual [Continue reading...] Archives For lifestyle
Last week in our Oikos ministry school, I was tasked with giving a session on intimacy with God. Fellow missionary and teammate Shaun Wissmann has basically come up with the entire curriculum for our discipleship school, with the oversight of our fearless leader Mark Burgess. Then, they tell me what I'll teach. :)
So far, this has worked wonderfully.
Since I felt like this is a subject I could approach from the head easily and wanted to make sure I was living it, I tried evaluating my own spiritual [Continue reading...] 
The internet and blogosphere is up in arms yet again regarding Rob Bell for some reason or another. OK I'm being intentionally obtuse when the reason is quite simple -- he allegedly has come out in support of gay marriage, and apparently people are surprised by this as though it was not foreseeable.
For some level of context, I encourage you if you have a moment to watch this three minute video that his comments have been taken from.
On the one hand, I had some level of understanding what he [Continue reading...]
I recently was reading the story of the woman with the issue of blood in the fifth chapter of Mark. She touched the hem of Jesus' garment and was immediately healed, without Jesus seeming to know who had touched Him, but that healing virtue had left him and impacted someone. In the Old Testament, Jesus would have been considered ceremonially unclean from having touched or been touched by such a woman. In the New Testament, under a new covenant, the sick got healed and cleaned when they touched [Continue reading...]
Recently I was setting out to accomplish a task that I’ve known for a long time I could easily do, but for some reason I had put it off. I am not talking about procrastination, but the type of excuses I’d tell myself, or anybody else that encouraged me to go forward in this particular project that I will be vague about for the time being.
A friend of mine who is holding me accountable to this particular thing, told me something I haven’t been able to stop reminding myself of:
“Steve, [Continue reading...]
Recently a famous celebrity model and actress was in an interview stating that she's going to church with her husband and baby. She also stated that she speaks in tongues and sees miraculous healings in her church services.
When I read this, my first reaction was "great! God is obviously working on her!" and to take a moment to pray for her to have complete truth revealed to her.
What caught my attention on Facebook yesterday was how many of my friends apparently didn't have that reaction [Continue reading...]
I was reading a really good biography on my Kindle these last few days, and quickly I became nostalgic of my own adolescence as the author was sharing their sordid past.
I personally have never done drugs, I didn't get into drinking alcohol or sexual promiscuity. My life was pretty tame in those regards, but when I gave my life to Christ at age 15, enough people who knew me could tell you a change had taken place in me. I was no longer the same pain in the rear end that I was before.
I [Continue reading...]
