Archive for December, 2009

The Longview by Roger Parrott

The Longview by Roger Parrott

December 30, 2009 | By | Add a Comment

The Longview is written to ministry leaders, but longview principles are for every Christian striving for authentically biblical leadership, whether in ministry or the marketplace. How will you choose to face the challenges of leadership? Will you choose to pursue immediate results – or will you choose to follow Christ […]

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Learning to Soar by Avery and Matt Willis

Learning to Soar by Avery and Matt Willis

December 29, 2009 | By | Add a Comment

Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, That hovers over its young, He spread His wings and caught them, He carried them on His pinions. – Deuteronomy 32:11, NASB Learning to Soar is based off of Deuteronomy 32:11 and has four parts. The first part is how God uses […]

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When You Lose Someone You Love by Richard Exley

When You Lose Someone You Love by Richard Exley

December 28, 2009 | By | Add a Comment

And now, more than ever, you need the ministry of comfort. Not covered dishes and sympathy cards, but a safe place with a safe person, somewhere you can grieve without being rebuked or misunderstood. You need someone who will let you be real, someone who will let you weep or […]

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Distance

Distance

December 28, 2009 | By | Add a Comment

What is most close, most intimate, most present, often cannot be experienced directly but only with a certain distance…. Only in retrospect do I realize that something very important has taken place. Isn’t this true of all really important events in life? When I am together with someone I love […]

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A Green Christmas

A Green Christmas

December 24, 2009 | By | Add a Comment

A special holiday video blog and song. Merry Christmas! [audio:http://www.marklamberti.com/yougottagetup.mp3]

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Growing with Purpose by Jon Walker

Growing with Purpose by Jon Walker

December 24, 2009 | By | Add a Comment

One of the biggest jerks I ever knew was a twenty-three year old college graduate whose anger and arrogance spilled into many of his relationships. His hypocrisy was astounding as he claimed to be a Christian one moment and then acted like a son of hell the next. If it […]

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All that ever was

December 22, 2009 | By | 1 Comment

What’s lost is nothing to what’s found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup. – Frederick Buechner

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Passing Shadows

Passing Shadows

December 19, 2009 | By | Add a Comment

It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much […]

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Change

December 19, 2009 | By | Add a Comment

Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can’t get any better, it can. – Nicholas Sparks

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Remodeling

Remodeling

December 19, 2009 | By | Add a Comment

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are […]

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