*video with sound accidentally starts playing on my phone*
Every child within 20 mile radius: "What are you watching? Can I watch that? What's it about? Why are you watching that?"
"A healthy church is not a church that's perfect and without sin...It's a church that continually seeks to conform itself to God's Word." – @MarkDever#churchplanting
Homeschooling this morning. The baby dumped a full cup of water during history, one kid colored on the floor during a review of ancient Rome, and the 3yr old inadvertently cut her own hair during ancient Greek geography. Send chocolate.
@edstetzer Not only that, but a dark-skinned Middle Eastern messiah named Jesus who refused to take part in the nationalism of his own day, and blazed a way to a kingdom whose founder and builder is God!
True leadership uses a public voice 2 lead narratives on controversial issues w/ biblical clarity & gospel charity 2 others. It speaks into the storm, not after it. It speaks for the voiceless & misrepresented. It does justice, loves mercy, walks humbly w/ God... then sleeps well
“The birth of Christ is the eucatastrophe of Man’s history. The RESURRECTION is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation.”
—J.R.R. #Tolkien
Eucatastrophe = the good catastrophe, the sudden, joyous turn