Strategy
On our lounge table there sits a chess board. But I seldom take out the chess pieces out of their drawers. Why? Because I have not yet mastered strategy in chess. I am told that great chess players can glance at a position and quickly assess which side is winning. Not only that, but they can also determine ...
How would you describe your prayer life? For many of us, we might find it hard to pray. Perhaps you do not know how to pray. You might have learned how to pray as a child, or recite the Lord's prayer, but with the passing of years you find praying not a delight, but a struggle. Besides, the pace of our moder...
How important is prayer in your life? In your marriage? In your family? What about in the life of your church? If people were to meet you, or drop into your church on a Sunday, would they notice a prayerful urgency in your life and that of your church? In our missional strategy to reach the lost for Christ ...
How does one keep going in life and in ministry? Both personally and as congregations? If only it was as easy as putting an Energizer battery into our ministry or church sockets! Perhaps you have seen (or remember) those images of the Energizer bunny. While others quickly run out of steam, the Energizer bun...
Who has your back? Is there someone in your life who takes responsibility to make sure that you are living your life in obedience to Christ and to the glory of God? What about your church? Are you just doing your own thing, or are there others who watch over you and hold you accountable? Personally? As a ch...
Loneliness is more common than you think. According to a report out of Harvard University, more 50% of people say that they are lonely. In an August article in Scientific American, before the COVID pandemic, more than two-thirds of Americans considered themselves lonely. A loneliness report,published here in Austr...
Where do you find support in life and in ministry? The popular adage is true: we are better together. We are not meant to do life alone. In fact, our creator God made this abundantly clear when he created the first man. In the opening pages of the Bible God declared that "it is not good for the ...
Your church has a postal code. It is situated at some crossroad in your community. Suppose one day you spend an hour or so at a local cafe near your church. You don't go there to have your soy double shot latte. Oh, you might order a coffee, but you are there to ask people walking by one question. Thi...
