For all of you who took in the I-Heart Revolution movie, I love hearing how God stirs hearts. Please write down your thoughts.
This should get you started:
As you took it all in, how would describe what God was stirring in your heart to DO?
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3 Critical Leadership Lessons from a quick glance visit to Liberty University
I had never seen Liberty University and, like most people, had only a caricature knowledge of its founder Jerry Falwell. Standing in Lynchburg and seeing a campus that is now reaching (with internet) some 50,000 students, I couldn’t help but be inspired. Here’s a few thoughts about leadership that struck me as I spent little more than a couple of hours there. Nothing new but any leader can file them in the reminder category:
Vision matters – The power of leadership begins and ends with God putting vision into the heart. It’s a simple lesson but, while simple, can easily be skipped over in its importance in the crush of every day life.
Continue reading ‘Leadership Lessons from Liberty’
I hope everyone takes the challenge to read through 1 Chronicles 13 – 16. You can take things to a whole new place in your life if you do. Below are the points we’ve been addressing out of those passage in our study of worship. Worship is so fundamental to our calling and identity as a church, learning and developing ourselves on a deeper level from the Bible can lead to greater fruit, greater connection with God and greater impact in the world.
Worship is:
(There are not definitions but principles surrounding it)
Deciding – not feeling
Celebrating – reverence can be expressed in shouts, dancing, instruments, enthusiasm.
Continue reading ‘Defining Worship:’
Thrill
One of the greatest thrills of my life is standing in our services and being overwhelmed by the music coming from both stage and the congregation. The intensity levels have always been high but it looks like they keep going up. Sometimes I stand and just give thanks because I know I am standing in the middle of answered prayers. There was a day several years back when we only longed for and prayed for what we now experience every Sunday — a sense of free, passionate, give-it-all-you’ve-got worship. I love having a place where I can sing at the top of my lungs, shout until I’m hoarse, and clap until my hands hurt. What a rush.
And, when those times strike me, I often sense the inevitable nudge from the Holy Spirit that says: “Build on this. Take it deeper. Fan the flame”.
Continue reading ‘Gearing Up for the Worship Series’
I cannot stress enough how important and rewarding it is for all of us to become conversant with the content of Romans. My challenge is to have all of us read the entire book over the next three weeks. It’s not really THAT long. I would encourage anyone who can to take the time to read it all in one sitting. It takes less than an hour. Then, go back through it piece by piece each day. If you can’t take that kind of time then do what you can, however small. I have included my sermon notes because the sheer volume of material can be a little overwhelming. I can’t wait to see what God does through our study of this amazing book.
Romans
1:17 = Summary statement of whole book
UNDERSTANDING ROMANS
1) We are not righteous
Continue reading ‘No More Mullets: Romans Notes (Part 1)’
Tell me what you’re thinking:
I don’t know about you, but for me the Leadership Summit never fails to disappoint in the area of messing with my mind, heart, paradigms, assumptions. . . you name it. I go through so many emotions and thoughts. If I’m being honest, sometimes I want to throw my hands up and say, “forget it, I can’t do this”. Then the next moment I am ready to run out of the room and take the next mountain.
One of the greatest needs I have is to process and discuss with others. I would love to hear how the sessions are impacting you.
I heard definite themes: Decentralize. Innovate or DIE. Trust God much more radically. Equip then release people. The only way you will get a hearing in the new reality is to SHOW long before you tell. Get off your back side and DO something. Trust God even more radically. Get off you back side and do MORE.
Here are a few questions to get us processing and discussing:
- How would you sum up some of your thoughts?
- Which speaker impacted you the most and why?
- What challenged you the most?
- What encouraged you the most?
- What idea stands out as the one you will most likely apply to your own leadership?
- How can we apply what we’ve learned to achieving our church goals?
Comment freely. I look forward to the discussion.
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In thinking about what we want to accomplish in the next year and our vision for the church, we’re reminded of the importance of prayer.
During our “Fact or Fairytale?” Series it was suggested we make notes available since there is a lot of material and a lot to think about. I hope you will continue to pursue your own encouragement and equipping as we all face a society which is extremely skeptical with a faith that is extremely defensible. From our talk on Creation and Evolution:
How do we answer the challenge of evolution?
Romans 1:18-22
Understand
Understand Biblical Creation:
1. An artist made the art
Continue reading ‘Fact or Fairytale – Notes’
