Category: Mission

CAN GOD TRUST YOU?

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“You are trusting God, but can God trust you?

These challenging words recently confronted me when listening to a message by Leith Anderson as he revealed some of our common misconceptions concerning how we have come to understand the ways of God. It was a timely message for me.
“God needs people He can trust when they find themselves in circumstances they would not of themselves choose. He has an abundance of volunteers who are willing to live good and purposeful lives that have prestige and money and fame and an impressive partner and who can take success without being arrogant and self-seeking. But who can He trust to have

LEADING AND LIVING IN A SECOND CHOICE WORLD

worldThe Scottish evangelist and teacher, Oswald Chambers, wrote.
“No Christian makes much progress in the Christian life until they realise that life is more chaotic and tragic than orderly.”
Ever since the fall of mankind in the Garden of Eden, these words of Oswald Chambers have helped to define the world in which we have been called to live and serve.

The purpose of this paper is to understand how we might live out our calling as leaders in a world of chaos and tragedy, in a second choice world, that Paul described in his letter to the Romans in chapter 8.
“Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared

WHAT IS SUCCESS ?

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One of the most important questions a follower of Jesus will ever have to answer is “WHAT IS SUCCESS?” For our response to this question will determine the success of our life’s journey when we ultimately stand in the presence of the Lord.

In recent days I have found myself giving serious consideration to this question “WHAT IS SUCCESS?” as I have been reading the life of Jeremiah.
For 40 years Jeremiah served as God’s spokesman to Judah with the confronting message, “Repent and turn to God, or He will punish you.” No one was spared from hearing his message. Unrelentingly, he urged them to act, but to …

WORDS THAT HAVE SHAPED MY LIFE (99) “OPPORTUNITIES…..God’s open doors”

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As I have reflected on my life, I have concluded that life consists of a series of unfolding opportunities that God sovereignly initiates for the purpose of fulfilling His great plans. Many of these opportunities have come unannounced, some have been disguised as intrusions and some have required me to take steps of faith that have involved ‘burning my bridges’ and walking away from the world in which I was living. Opportunities usually involve paying a price, as Jesus’ disciples found out when they responded to His invitation to follow Him. They had to leave everything. Luke 5:11,28.

The Apostle Paul used the term “open doors” to describe the opportunities …