Zac Hicks posts a quote from Robin Parry’s Worshipping Trinity, which emphasises that Spirit filled worship is not a style, but an empowered response that can assume many expressions. Spirit-led worship is worship that is sincere and honest. It acknowledges our need of God’s assistance and sees that only in Christ are any offerings we …
Sometimes we seek the miraculous to remove the signposts which point us to Jesus, instead of wanting the Jesus we’re being pointed to. From Zack Eswine’s Sensing Jesus. This presence of inconsolable things reminds us that healing is not the same as heaven. Miracles are real and powerful, but they do not remove the inconsolable …
More on the futility of ambition that is not grounded in place and people. A placeless ambition can likewise rob us of the kind of happiness that God intends. Restless discontent is a kind of fatigue. When a finite creature covets omnipresence he loses sight of sight itself. Imagination becomes placeless. Detail loses relevance. Routine …
I’ve got the ‘Let’s call Mondays our day off, but have meetings on three Monday nights of the month blues.’ Yeah, yeah, I know. Toughen up princ… er, pastor. Anyway, here’s a bunch of Twitter Tweets that mention pastors, collated by Thom Rainer. Numbers 7 and 10 made me smile. Numbers 2, 3, and 6 …
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