The following is a post by Rob Grayson about the Kingdom of God from his blog Faith Meets World. He’s definitely worth following on twitter and his blog is among my favorites. Enjoy!
Yesterday I read the following quote:
The kingdom of God comes like a long walk home.
(For those who want to know, it’s actually a slightly edited version of a quote by… Read More
We just started a new series at NWLife called “Kingdom Invitation.” The big idea of this teaching is that we’ve been invited to participate in the Kingdom of God RIGHT NOW. Each week we will be attempting to answer the question, “What is the Kingdom of God like?”
Here’s a cool whiteboard session on… Read More
Here’s what I read and loved and wanted to share with you from around the internet this past week…
This post, Getting Famous Is Not How You Will Change The World, by Donald Miller. I especially loved this line: “Here’s what I know: Being known by strangers isn’t going to make anybody fulfilled. In fact, it can make life much more confusing and… Read More
Happy Friday! On today’s post, you have the opportunity to get a gift (a free book) and have a few giggles (at some funny videos). So let’s get started…
1. FREE BOOK—TOUCH BY RUDY RASMUS.
You could win this excellent book by Pastor Rudy Rasmus – Touch: Pressing Against the Wounds of a Broken World (I heard Rudy’s wife, Juanita, speak… Read More
The methods and “business practices” of Jesus don’t make much sense to the modern American who works in the competitive marketplace and relaxes at home in the evenings – watching The Apprentice, Shark Tank, or The Voice.
We’re used to the threat of elimination. And we’re keeping an eye out for others who ought to be eliminated.
Jesus gave individuals a place at the table with him who didn’t deserve to be there. In fact, none of them deserved it. They looked more like a bizarre collection of characters… Read More
I don’t know what the vision statement of the church I grew up in was, but if I were to guess based on the rapture movies they used to show, it’d be something like:
We exist to scare the hell out of everyone.
Yes, I had nightmares about missing the rapture, heads being chopped off, accidentally getting the mark of the beast, and a variety of other apocalyptic terrors.
And there were a number of times when, coming home from school and finding no evidence of family members, I’d panic and assume the worst: I had missed the rapture. For the next few minutes (until my mom came back from visiting with a friend), I’d frantically devise my ridiculous escape and survival plan… Read More
I was listening to Jonathan Martin speak on the Myth of Moses while out on my favorite trail yesterday…
Here are a few summarized bits of what he was talking about:
Yesterday, my wife was asking me about my younger years of rebellion—my “prodigal son” days. She wondered how far away from God I felt like I was back then…
Did you believe you had run away from God? Did you see yourself as truly on the outside, no longer part of the family of God?
It didn’t take me long to answer. Yes, I did.
Back then, I didn’t have such a generous view of the family of God.
What I understood from the teaching of the church at that time was clear: Do those things, and you are not part of us. More specifically, do those things, and you are not part of Him… Read More
I recently watched The Well Digger’s Daughter on Netflix. It’s a subtitled French film about a widowed well digger raising his six daughters in the Provence countryside at the start of World War I. The film got 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, so I expected it to be pretty good.
The movie is beautiful and all french-like (if you’re into that sort of thing).
The plot of the film has the well digger’s oldest daughter Patricia returning home from Paris to help raise her sisters. Her father hopes to marry her off to his loyal well-digging assistant…
But when she’s impregnated by a wealthy young pilot who promptly abandons… Read More
As I have grown in my understanding of God, and in my relationship with him over the years, I’ve come to believe something about his nature…
He is kind.
I will have compassion on you with everlasting kindness, says the Lord —Isaiah 54.8 GWT
His kindness is everlasting.
And it’s not a hidden feature. Sometimes the church and his people do a good job of hiding it… Read More
