@mojomorganj @drantbradley @bryanbaise @KSPrior Speaking as someone in College Min, I’d say “The Fuel & The Flame” by Steve Shadrach..HANDS DOWN! It’s recently been updated & edited as well. But it’s a classic for college ministry.
enthusiasm for the patient acquisition of virtue, little inclination to sign up for a long apprenticeship and what earlier generations of Christians got holiness.“
-Eugene H. Peterson, A Long Obedience In The Same Direction
A good word for Christians today:
“ In our kind of culture anything, even news about God, can be sold if it is packaged freshly; but when it loses its novelty, it goes on the garbage cheap. There is a great market for religious experience in our world; there’s a little
Hunger will make you eat from a pigsty but starvation will send you home to the Fathers house.
God uses the fruit of our rebellion for restoration.
Famine leads to feast in the kingdom of God.
Grieving for the family of Breonna Taylor and praying for the two officers shot last night in Louisville. Praying for justice, peace, protection and healing in Louisville and in our nation at large. Prince of Peace, help us.
@ErikReed Yes, I would. But I’m also not a black man in Kenosha.
Is it difficult to imagine a scenario, if you were a black man, living in a town with a racist sheriff where you might be in a situation where you wouldn’t want to comply?
That’s my last question. Love you too bro.
@ErikReed What if you were a black man in Kenosha, with a chief of police that makes public comments (from ‘18) like you posted yesterday?
I didn’t say dismantle or defund. I’m just saying change. Accountability.
@ErikReed Thinking about the Christian’s submission to Jesus, there’s total trust there.
When our imperfect systems break trust, there will be hesitancy to submit. So how to effect change in a safe, righteous way is the goal, right?
@ErikReed It’s ultimately submission to authority.
But here’s a genuine question - when parts of a system of authority have a reputation of being misunderstanding, abusive, corrupt, racist, etc., is it not understandable to see resistance?
Dear Praying Friends, Kathy & I want to thank you for your many expressions of support, and for your faithfulness in praying for us. We have been acutely aware of those prayers, and God has heard them-As of yesterday, I have finished six rounds of chemo for pancreatic cancer 1/5