April 17, 2023
April 23 | Application (‘When Things Don’t Go Your Way’)
In a culture obsessed with personal empowerment, the Lord offers a unique alternative to control. It’s called “surrender.”
Articles for tag: Luke 5:1
September 14, 2020
Does It Really Help to ‘Send Thoughts and Prayers’? (Sept. 20 Lesson Application)
This “Application“ column goes with the Bible Lesson for Sept. 20, 2020: Pray (1 Timothy 2:1-8) ________ By David Faust Prayer gets a lot of lip service, but not a lot of respect. Do you see prayer as a last resort or your first response? Many treat God the way a pilot treats his parachute: He’s glad it’s there for emergencies, but he hopes he never has to use it. When a basketball player heaves a long shot that has little chance of hitting the basket, announcers say, “He threw up a prayer.” In football when the quarterback desperately flings
April 12, 2020
Application for April 19: Net Results
(This “Application“ column goes with the Bible study for April 19, 2020: “Power Over All of Creation.”) By David Faust First-century fishermen relied on their nets like carpenters rely on their hammers and farmers count on their plows. It took fishermen considerable skill, time, and effort to clean, dry, and mend their linen nets to keep them from rotting and wearing out. A seine net might be several hundred feet long and 20 feet deep, with cork or wood floats to keep the top of the net on the water’s surface and stone weights to pull the rest down into
July 31, 2016
5 Steps for Getting Your Group or Class to Invite New People
By Michael C. Mack How do you get members to invite people to their groups? Here are five specific principles you can use to help the people in your group or class, even the shyest ones, extend invitations: 1. The leader must go first! Don”™t go to your group with the ideas below until you have personally done these things yourself. As a leader, you are an example, a model, for those entrusted to you (1 Peter 5:3). 2. Don”™t do anything else until you”™ve spent time with God. Every strategy you use, every word you say, everything you do
August 25, 2010
A Heart for God
Michael Mack reflects on leadership that begins in close fellowship with God, showing how prayer, solitude, devotional life, and remaining with Jesus shape leaders who overflow into others.
July 14, 2010
Letting Go: The First Step Beyond
Mark A. Taylor reflects on surrender, control, and Jesus’ call to leave the nets behind in pursuit of deeper discipleship and joy.
August 12, 2007
We Turned Vision into Action
Mount Pleasant Christian Church built a six-week “Imagine” series on Matthew 25 and paired each message with action—food and clothing drives, orphan support, AIDS caregiver kits for Zimbabwe, and focused prayer for the persecuted church.
