The “tyranny of the new” dominates a minister’s life. As a minister, I am always tempted to search for something new: a new structure of worship, a new environment for our meetings, a new way to do small groups, a new way to teach, a new event, a new program, a new vision, etc. Entire […]
Continue reading →In 2 Timothy 4:3-4 (NIV), Paul says: For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. The typical way I hear this passage […]
Continue reading →Acts 1:6-11 6So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” 7He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. 8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has […]
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