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I recently finished reading Everyday Grace by Jessica Thompson. The adult class I teach will be going through the book in the Spring of 2016.  Below are some thoughts on church, work, and those difficult people in our lives from Thompson: The truth of our belovedness is what sanctifies. The truth of the wonderful story of redemption is what sanctifies...In your struggle against sin, in your struggle to be a more "sanctified Christian," remember the truth of God's love for you in Christ...Our sanctification is completely about him and his work in our lives, his completed work, his ongoing work. Instead of fixing each other's broken parts, what if we started bearing with each other's broken parts?  So we are humble with one another, not thinking we are better than others. We are gentle with each other, instead of beating each other over the head with a long list of "you-should." A. W. Tozier writes, "one of the greatest hindrances to internal...

We started our day working on site of future sand volleyball court. The afternoon was spent playing with kids or playing soccer with youth. Here are pictures from today:

Yesterday was a travel day so didn't have many pictures. Here are pictures from Eagle's Nest in Solalà:

Today, Hesston MB has left the building.  After a brief time of worship and prayer, our church is headed out into the community to love and serve people.  Below you will see our t-shirts that remind us of our desire to disciple head, heart and hands.  I look forward to hearing the stories of what God does in and through us!

Here is my final post on Gospel by J.D. Greear.  I recommend you picking up this book.  The following quotes are from the final chapters of the book. The more we taste the gospel, the more we love it. And the more we learn to love the things of God, the more time we'll spend doing those things, less by discipline and more by desire. We enter into a self-reproducing cycle of life. We are sowing to the Spirit, and from the Spirit reaping life everlasting. The gospel isn't about work, after all; it's about resting in God's work on your behalf. When we grasp how much God has given to us in grace, and we see how great the needs of the world are, we will want to work for God. gospel-centered people offer themselves to God, joyfully, and then do whatever He directs them to do, knowing that only what He empowers them to do will do any real good.  We simply carry out orders; He provides the resources. the only thing that brings true spiritual g...

On Thursday, I finished Rhett Smith's book, What It Means To Be A Man . This book would be a good small group resource for men or even for a few guys to go through together.  Smith uses his experience with counseling men to focus on what men really need based on God's Word not society's opinion. You can view a previous post on this book here Enjoy these quotes from the last chapters of the book. In the same way, our relationship with God our Father is the anchor that keeps us from temptations to look at other things for a sense of identity. Henri Nouwen writes, "Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence." We cannot experience pain without vulnerability--but we can't experience connection without it either. To put it another way, our identity isn't build on our image being reflected back to us but the image of the Father flowing through us. we see a deep connection between our identity as men and our responsibility to imitate...