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Category Archives: Influence
Redefining Prosperity
I’m going to let you in on a little secret: I wish my blog readership was bigger, my church had more people, my home was nicer, my salary was larger, and my bank account was more impressive. Does that shock … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, Contentment, Covetousness, Desires, Disappointment, Discipleship, Doing Good, Encouragement, Faithfulness, God's Will, God's Work, Greed, Influence, Money, Personal, Priorities, Problems, Prosperity, Reward, Service, Trials
Tagged a biblical definition of prosperity, Joseph prospering in Potiphar's house, Prosperity, prosperity preaching, whatever he does shall prosper
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Galatians 6:9
Robert Raikes was the father of the Sunday School movement that swept over England in the late 1700s and spilled over into the United States in the early 1800s. As the editor of the Gloucester Journal, Raikes became greatly burdened … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, Children, Church, Commitment, Disappointment, Doing Good, Doubt, Dress and Appearance, Encouragement, Evangelism, Faith, Faithfulness, God's Work, Impatience, Influence, Ministry, Missions, Patience, Perseverance, Problems, Reward, Service, Sowing and Reaping, Sunday School, Trials, Trusting In God, Waiting, Witnessing, Youth
Tagged Galatians 6:9, in due season we shall reap, let us not grow weary in doing good, Robert Morrison, the first Sunday Schools
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The Problem With an Unequal Yoke
A Christian girl once told Charles Spurgeon, the legendary preacher, that she was about to marry a man who didn’t attend church or make any allegiance whatsoever to Jesus. Spurgeon, true to form, quickly reminded her of the command from … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Choices, Discernment, Discipleship, God's Will, Influence, Marriage, Personal Holiness, Sanctification, Temptation
Tagged 2 Corinthians 6:14-15, Charles Spurgeon, Christian wanting to marry a lost person, illustration about an unequal yoke, the dangers of an unequal yoke
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“I Am the Joker”
Lately, I’ve been preaching a series on the life of Samson. As you might recall, Samson lived his life under the Old Testament law’s Nazirite vow (Judges 13:5, Numbers 6:1-21). That vow had its definite particulars, but a big part … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Choices, Christian Liberty, Current Events, Discipleship, Dress and Appearance, Drugs, Entertainment, Gambling, Influence, Music, Personal Holiness, Separation, Temptation
Tagged Aurora Colorado, Heath Ledger Joker, I am the Joker, James Holmes, love not the world, separation from the world, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises
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Making Perception Align with Reality
The owner of a candy store noticed that one of his salesgirls would have customers lined up waiting for her even as his other salesgirls stood by doing nothing. Perplexed by this, he went to the girl and asked for … Continue reading
Posted in Attitude, Backsliding, Change, Discipleship, Doing Good, Dress and Appearance, Faithfulness, God's Work, Honesty, Hypocrisy, Influence, Missions, Personal Holiness, Righteousness, Salvation, Service, Sin
Tagged 2 Corinthians 5:17, becoming a new creation in Christ, false perception of Christians, hypocritical Christians, perception, story about the cannibal, story about the girl scooping candy
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Ministering to Difficult People
New Yorker Stephen Merritt was an interesting guy. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, he served Christ as both a minister and an undertaker. (He was the undertaker for the funeral of Ulysses S. Grant.) In addition to these … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, Attitude, Character, Complaining, Confession, Conscience, Conviction, Discipleship, Doing Good, Extending Forgiveness, God's Work, Influence, Ministry, Missions, Persecution, Revenge, Service, Suffering, Trials
Tagged 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, example of a man convicted by the Holy Spirit, ministry to the homeless, refusing to seek revenge, Stephen Merritt
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