Apr 13, 2012
Where the rubber meets the road
Posted by Evan Whitman in Gospel Living | Comments (0)
A few months ago I wrote a blog titled “Called to love and serve others despite of what they’ve done, or not…” you can see it here if you would like here The blog wasn’t a block buster (maybe it struck a nerve), it didn’t generate many comments and I’m not sure how many people read it. And that’s ok. I wrote it from the posture of confession and it was a blog that I needed to write to reorganize thoughts and priorities. If only one personRead More...
Apr 11, 2012
Who was Eliud?
Posted by Michael Howarth in Gospel Living - Stories | Comments (0)
Eliud was a son and a father. He was a man who was once a child who became a know-it-all teenager and then perhaps a hipster twenty-year old, confused husband and learn-as-you-go father. Eliud was one of the billions of people to live on this planet before you and me. Did he have a temper? Massive insecurities? No sense of humor? Love for board games and lazy afternoons? I don’t know, but he got up each day, and he liked his food a certain way, and stubbed his toe every once in a while, and had to apologizeRead More...
Apr 07, 2012
The Path to Resurrection
Posted by Michael Howarth in Gospel Living | Comments (0)
You will never receive the joy God has for you until you first submit to the pain He has for you. This is a hard truth and one of the most difficult for us to understand. It goes beyond our simple acknowledgements of sinfulness to a place of confrontation, reckoning and then, joy. The life of Jesus is one of continual submission the God. His answer to God the Father is a continual “yes.” Will you go? Yes. Take on flesh and time? Yes. Serve your enemies? Yes. Suffer for them? Yes. Die for them? Yes. The truthRead More...
Mar 31, 2012
Are You a Christian or a Jesus Follower?
Posted by Michael Howarth in Gospel Living - Gospel Identity | Comments (0)
What an interesting world we live in. Today, each of us has unprecedented opportunities to mold a public image and share with others who we want them to think we are. Are you actually authentic, or just wanting people to think you are? Are you really happy, or do you just think you should be and thus present the right front for it? Do you really have that opinion or does it simply seem like you should? To paraphrase a concept I orginally heard from Dr. Ed Cole, you have three versions of yourself to deal with: Who you thinkRead More...
