Christianity

Dave on March 5th, 2010

Christianity has to be disappointing, precisely because it is not a mechanism for accomplishing all our human ambitions and aspirations; it is a mechanism for subjecting all things to the will of God.
Simon Tugwell

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Dave on February 26th, 2009

 

In his book, The Mentored Life, Jim Houston gives four reasons why mentoring (or, life with life, Incarnational ministry) is becoming a cultural necessity today.
 
1.  Alienation in Modern Society:  We may have forgotten the long tradition of apprenticeship in our modern age but the move toward mentoring is certainly an indication of a desire [...]

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Dave on February 5th, 2009

 
We are working our way through “Papa Prayer” by Larry Crabb with our House Church.  From the start I could tell this would be an interesting discussion. All agreed we needed work on our prayer life but the crowd was mixed as to whether this book could actually speak into the void. Besides, [...]

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