My Two Cents Worth On the Frilled Lizard and the Future of TGCA
Looking backward to look forward. How the foundation of TGCA means we are now praying for 100 people to give $100 a month toward the future of TGCA.
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Looking backward to look forward. How the foundation of TGCA means we are now praying for 100 people to give $100 a month toward the future of TGCA.
A few years ago, I started wondering why our church didn’t have a paid pastoral care position. It seemed like we were all stretched or struggling in some way, like we could all use some extra help.
I have multiple bookshelves filled with leadership books. They are generally written by athletes, coaches, business leaders who have excelled in their fields and have become great leaders. But over several years, I grew tired of reading these books, because each one seemed to add yet another bunch of things that I need to do or be as a leader. Each book seemed to complicate rather than simplify the task of leadership. This is a problem because if we, as leaders of God’s people, are not clear on what we should be doing then we cannot do our job. These...
ARCANE AND GERMANE BOOK REVIEWS #12 “After reading a new book, never allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”“All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.”(C.S. Lewis) John Stott Centenary Special—The Bible Still Speaks Today! Today, Tuesday the 27th April 2021, we mark the centenary of the birth of John RW Stott (1921-2011). It is difficult to overstate Stott’s massive influence on twentieth-century Christianity; not least in his impact on biblical teaching and preaching. The enduring legacy of Stott’s influence in Australia is clearly on display in the now widespread commitment...
This world is not enough. Yes, it’s the name of a not great 1990’s Bond film with Pierce Brosnan, but it also how we are all living now. We live like this world is not enough. It’s why we all want more—more experiences, more satisfaction, more love, more sex, more success, with more purity, more abs, more glutes, more status and more. If we were content, enough would be enough. We aren’t content and, yet, despite, Christianity’s call for contentment I want to argue that this lack of contentment is right. The existence of our discontent, tells us we were...
