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I know I haven’t been keeping up with our one year bible exploration. Now that all the various blogs have been divided up properly I am going to do my best at posting the week end wrap up and the coming weeks reading schedule.
I have also need to be honest that on top of not [...]

“The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.” - A. Godin

It is a known fact that we get what we expect. If you expect business as usual then open your eyes, that’s just what you’ve got. If you expect lives to be changed, look out.
The level of our success in fulfilling the mission [...]

A few weeks ago when I got up to get ready for work I turned on the TV to listen to the news and found a local preacher giving a message to his congregation, although televised for us all to experience. I am not going to even get into whether or not this particular ministry [...]

There is something that consumes my thoughts and my prayers. I don’t just take it seriously as whole but I take responsibility for it on a very personal level. Communicating God’s word is my responsibility. Many can do it and some even assist me in it but when it all comes down to it, it [...]

I haven’t been blogging a lot lately but I wanted to make sure that I stayed on top of the bible exploration. You will be seeing me post my post book thoughts soon as well as some other stuff this week. Until then here is your reading for week 7.

Monday

Exodus 21

Psalms 74

Mark 7

Tuesday

Exodus 22

Psalms 75, [...]

Wow! I have been so covered over with work and church stuff that I have had no time to keep up with blogging or our weekly Bible Exploration updates. I also think that we have had some heavy posts recently and sometimes that will slow down our momentum as we ponder the discussion.
Either way I [...]

Week 3 is over and I believe I am going to have to reevaluate my reading schedule. I seem to fall behind and then have to pay catch up every other day, Oh well, no one said it was easy. I trust every one is still on schedule as well.
Here are our week 3 stats:

Genesis [...]

Can anyone else feel it getting a little tougher. The year has begun and our schedules have started to fill up. Share with everyone what has been having an impact on you from you daily reading.
Here are your week two statistics:

Genesis = 12 Chapters
Psalms = 14 Chapters
Matthew = 7 Chapters

That with last weeks reading brings [...]

I am not saying that this is the case for all churches but it is definitely worth a closer look. There has been a lot of discussion on the first century church lately, at least on this blog and it has really got me thinking. One of the greatest advantages they had was the fact [...]

I have been thinking a lot lately about my role in life. What God wants me to accomplish? What can I achieve? And a bunch of other things. In the end I have determined that I have a calling but not necessarily a destiny. I have a mission that God wants me to accomplish but [...]