I don't think I would be accused of being too lenient…. I could be wrong. Who knows how others see you? It's hard to get an outside perspective when you live inside your own head. I like challenges. Sometimes too much. I want to be intense, extreme, devout. I don't care if I am known for being that, but I want it to be real. Often I observe others who want to be known as extreme, because it's cool, or hip, or something. Most of what I have seen in these examples is false. Continue reading “Where Is All This Going?”
When the Son of Man is Revealed
So will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed………Luke 17:30
(I grabbed this verse out of it's context because it made me think of the Lord’s revealing in a different way, and I wanted to share this with you.) The way this verse is worded makes me think of the idea differently. The day of the Lord, the second coming, when Jesus returns…. they all sound different from “The day when the Son of Man is revealed…” Continue reading “When the Son of Man is Revealed”
Interview with a Former World Racer
I have a good friend named Caleb Lorenson. In the forge of affliction our friendship was created, but that is another story. Maybe we will get back to that some other time. Let's wrap the part about Caleb up by saying that I trust Caleb with my life. Enough about that for now.
Caleb has a friend named Samara, and she is a missionary type, like many of us are. Caleb and I were talking on the phone a few weeks ago, talking about a trip he had recently returned from to Thailand. We talked for quite a while, and in the conversation he reminded me about Samara, and that she was back from the race. I told him I really wanted to talk to her about it, because of my familiarity with The World Race. It is something of an emerging expression of short-term missions in my mind, and I have talked with the founder, the director, and some of the staff in person in recent years to try to understand what they are doing and why it is experiencing such growth. If Samara was willing to talk with me, in some ways it would make my exposure more complete. I was hoping to get something deeper than the marketing view. I did. Continue reading “Interview with a Former World Racer”
Value
Take heed, and beware of covetousness, for a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions. – Jesus, Luke 12:15, RSV
In business, we are encouraged to develop a process that will provide self sustaining growth. In part, our fallen nature wants this because we don’t want to actively follow the Lord. We want, like the rich man in the familiar parable, to be at ease in the abundance of our crops. Jesus said that this was a comfort that flows from deception. The main take away here is the view we get from the Lord on this guy’s psychological perspective. It is from same chapter where He said that a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions. This is not the true measure of life, and we should not take security / comfort, or seek to them, in possessions. The funny thing is, it is this exact deceptive worldview that the current age constantly seeks to reinforce to and upon us. Continue reading “Value”