Archive for May, 2009

REACH Book part 2

May 29th, 2009

I am currently reading Scott Wilkins book on titled, “REACH: A team approach to evangelism and assimilation”. In the second chapter he starts to develop the idea of team evangelism.
In it he lists a number of benefits of the team approach. I thought they are worth sharing…

Teams involve more people, thus affording more resources, ideas, [...]

Paul's commitment to the Gospel

May 28th, 2009

I was reading through Acts chapter 20 the other day. This is where Paul talks with the Elders of the church at Ephesus before heading down to Jerusalem. I found this passage very inspiring.
As Paul shares with the Elders he tells them that the Holy Spirit has told him that there will only be trouble [...]

Praise and thanksgiving

May 24th, 2009

In church today I was asked to lead one part of the service. It is the section where we like to offer praise and thanksgiving to God for the all good things He has done for us.
Rather than just one person praying up the front we handed out about 30 peices of paper with positive [...]

Audio sermonettes

May 22nd, 2009

Hi all,
I have added some more short MP3 audio sermonettes to my website. They are three to four minutes in length and are less that 1 megabyte each. If you want to check them out you can visit my audio page.
Some of the titles include…
Ephesians 2 – Where are you seated? (628kb)
Acts 3 – We [...]

Daily devotions for kids

May 21st, 2009

Hello all,
My wife came across this website that has daily devotions for kids. It is called Kids4truth.com. We read through some of the devotions and they share Biblical and positive messages for kids of school age.
If you would like to check the website out you can visit this link here.
God Bless,
Dave

Casting your anxiety on Him

May 20th, 2009

I was just reflecting on the Bible verse 1 Peter 5:7. It says, “Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you”.
As I was reflecting I had this picture of someone standing on some rocks by the ocean with a fishing rod casting their line out into the deep waters. It was like [...]

The changing pastoral role?

May 17th, 2009

I have been thinking about the role of a Pastor lately. Once upon a time it used to be about preaching and teaching from the Bible and then visiting one-on-one with people in their homes or workplaces.
These days it seems to be more about leading, preaching, mentoring, networking, prayer, writing, equipping and releasing people into [...]