The Community of the King Back when we lived in Germany, I took a three-day resident course on tentmaking ministry. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, tentmaking is where a person takes a job overseas to support themselves while performing missions work. One advantage over the traditional missions model is […]
Toward a Proper View of Scripture
Toward a Proper View of Scripture A few years ago, I was taking a training class with several others who worked for my company. Because class was all day, you ended up getting to know your fellow classmates pretty well. At the end of one day, Ali, a student from […]
Part VII: Living by Divine Life
Part VII: Living by Divine Life Christianity isn’t a “fire insurance policy” meant to save us from hell. The Lord has given us a purpose that includes what we do today. Jesus never meant for us to remain spiritual infants. Our fitness for His purpose requires that we mature into […]
Part VI: Re-examining Love
Part VI: Re-examining Love In the previous two posts, we’ve tried to clarify what Paul means by hope and faith within the Christian trivium. In this post, we’ll attempt to recover the true meaning of what both he and Jesus meant by love. While hope and faith are important, love […]
Part V: Understanding Faith
Part V: Understanding Faith The second of Paul’s metrics that we’ll examine is faith. It’s central to Christianity. It’s the seed within man that alone can please God and produce all other fruit. According to Ian Thomas, if the Holy Spirit is our spiritual engine, faith then is the clutch […]
Part IV: Rediscovering Our Hope
Part IV: Rediscovering Our Hope In the business world, we spend a lot of time talking about metrics. A metric is simply a means of measuring our progress toward some outcome. Return on investment, customer satisfaction, and profit margin are all examples of business metrics. So what would be the […]