Posted in Personal Faith on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today was the first day of The Next Big Idea conference at Baylor University. Dr. Diana Garland led the session Actively Faithful-Youth & Family Ministry. Some of the things that stuck out in my notes are:
The #1 request of families they surveyed in churches of several denominations was to get help serving others beyond ourselves as a [...]
Posted in Personal Faith, tagged Holy Spirit on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A while back a church member asked, “what is grieving the Holy Spirit?” I do not claim to be a theologian, but I will try to think through the question. Perhaps the first thing we need to do is define what the Holy Spirit is. The Trinity is a pretty difficult concept to grasp. Last [...]
Posted in Personal Faith on October 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight in Prayer and Bible study Marcus Thane led us to Psalm 13. There was quite a bit of discussion when the question of Christians and complaining was discussed. I wanted to write down some of my thoughts and since blogs are good for people rambling about things that only they care about, but they [...]
