Archive for October 2019
A Spacious Place 2
October 12, 2019 DAILY READINGS Psalm 66:1-12Jeremiah 28:1-17Luke 5:12-16This weekend’s scripture:Proverbs 29:17 FIELD NOTES Psalm 66 ends with this line: we went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us out to a spacious place. It’s a reference to Exodus 3:8 where God declares: I have come down to deliver my people from…
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Read MoreTraveling Light
Jesus instructed his disciples to not take anything with them as they went on their mission. Why?
Read MoreLost and Found
Slowly it dawned on me that one reason Jesus sent his disciples into the world was to use us to find and be in ministry with the forgotten, the weak, the least, the last, and the lost.
Read MoreThe Multiplier Effect
In my early years of ministry, I thought I had to do things myself because I was the one paid to do ministry. Eventually, I learned that I accomplished so much more when working with others.
Read MoreFields Ripe for Harvest
Jesus says that “…The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few…” (Luke 10:2)
Read MoreA Spacious Place
October 12, 2019 DAILY READINGS Psalm 66:1-12Jeremiah 28:1-17Luke 5:12-16This weekend’s scripture:Proverbs 29:17 FIELD NOTES Psalm 66 ends with this line: we went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us out to a spacious place. It’s a reference to Exodus 3:8 where God declares: I have come down to deliver my people from…
Read MoreCome and See
October 11, 2019 DAILY READINGS Psalm 66:1-12Jeremiah 27:1-222 Timothy 2:1-7This weekend’s scripture:Proverbs 29:17 FIELD NOTES In the first chapter of John’s Gospel (v39), two men spot Jesus and ask him where he is going. “Come and see”, Jesus replies. And they become some of Jesus’ first disciples. A few verses later (v46), one of those…
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October 10, 2019 DAILY READINGS Psalm 66:1-12Jeremiah 25:1-142 Timothy 1:13-18This weekend’s scripture:Proverbs 29:17 FIELD NOTES This week so far: I went to the gym and cried out in pain. The line at the grocery store was forever long and I grumbled to myself. My wife told me her family was coming in and I rolled…
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October 9, 2019 DAILY READINGS Psalm 137Lamentations 5:1-22Mark 11:12-14, 20-24This weekend’s scripture:Proverbs 29:17 FIELD NOTES Lamentations is a tough book to read. It is so emotionally raw, the grief is so transparent, the pain so honest, that it sometimes feels too voyeuristic and inappropriate to keep reading. Typically, we Americans are not used to reading…
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