Rubel Shelly reminds us to not get knocked off our path when we encounter potholes, even big bad ones that do damage, but to keep pressing on and persevering toward the call of God.
03/02/2014 by Rubel Shelly
It doesn't matter what you have done. Your sins can be washed away. You can start over. God will cleanse you and give you a new life.
02/26/2014 by Tim Archer
Phil Ware continues his leadership series on the Immanuel Sayings or ways to experience Jesus, this one focuses on compassionate service.
02/24/2014 by Phil Ware
Rubel Shelly talks about a book he read recently, "Sanctuary of Outcasts", and challenges us to make the church such a place.
02/23/2014 by Rubel Shelly
Stacy Voss reminds us that John the Baptist asked a deep and important question of Jesus and Jesus answered with not only truth, but also words of honor and affirmation.
02/21/2014 by Stacy Voss
Old clothes are comfortable and you get so used to them you do not realize how good new clothes are. Life is like that too.
02/19/2014 by Steve Ridgell
Phil Ware continues his series on experiencing God through Jesus, Immanuel, this time focusing upon our need for spiritual community, family, fellowship.
02/17/2014 by Phil Ware
Tim Woodroof completes the Interim Ministry Partners, http://www.interimministrypartners.com, series on helping a church determine its mission.
02/16/2014 by Tim Woodroof
Cathy Messecar challenges us to see the God of Abram, our God, in a new way, the God who will bless and bow to serve us as well as the God who calls us to obey and follow.
02/14/2014 by Cathy Messecar
I've been thinkin' about Heaven, a lot, lately. And I've decided that I don't care what it looks like, or if we have to wait a 1000 years, or if everything I know will be made new. Heaven is where God and Jesus are and that's where I want to be.
02/12/2014 by Bill Brant
Phil Ware begins a series of articles on the Immanuel Sayings in Matthew and this is done in coordination with Interim Ministry Partners and focuses on experiencing Jesus, or Immanuel.
02/10/2014 by Phil Ware
Rubel Shelly reminds us of MLK, Martin Luther King, Jr., and how he taught us we were all equal in God's eyes and that Jesus was the answer to uniting us into one people under God.
02/07/2014 by Rubel Shelly
Just as Isaiah had to overcome Uzziah's failure, we have to deal with the failures of others. We need to learn to turn to God at times like that.
02/05/2014 by Tim Archer
Phil Ware reminds us the way Jesus uses grace as an action, a living out of God's grace, in real life that has urges that Go back to the original woman and man.
02/03/2014 by Phil Ware
Brian McCutchen talks about worship and how it must be a daily part of our lives or it is not real worship like the early Christians shared and lived.
01/30/2014 by Brian McCutchen
Do not stay rooted in your past successes or failures. Instead, embrace the future God has planned for you.
01/29/2014 by Steve Ridgell
Phil Ware shares his heart about someone who is precious to him who needs to come to the Lord and has not yet done so.
01/27/2014 by Phil Ware
Phil Ware continues the http://interimministrypartners.com team series on a church finding its mission and living it out so it can grow and be vital and make a difference.
01/26/2014 by Phil Ware
Ron Rose is back to challenging us to treat our spiritual life like and adventure and let God lead us by faith and not hide the monotony of our same old routines.
01/24/2014 by Ron Rose
Forgiveness is good for you. Resentment is harmful. The choice should be easy, yet we often find ourselves keeping a record of the wrongs done against us.
01/22/2014 by Tim Archer
Phil Ware looks at Jesus' interaction with the man with leprosy in Mark 1 and how it is a blueprint for how we need to be in our communication with others.
01/20/2014 by Phil Ware
Mark Frost continues a series by http://interimministrypartners.com team members on how a church can discover its mission.
01/19/2014 by Mark Frost
Ann Voskamp shares the flash of insight that changed everything and began the journey of a 1000 God gifts and eucharisteo and thanksgiving.
01/17/2014 by Ann Voskamp
Satan wants to tattle on us to God so we get what we deserve. God will not let him. Instead, he forgives our sin.
01/15/2014 by Steve Ridgell
Phil Ware remembers an old mentor who has gone to be with Jesus, Neil Lightfoot, and as he recalls a lesson from John 4 about real faith is also reminded about the nature of inspired truth.
01/13/2014 by Phil Ware