Nearly every day we hear about needs, often extreme needs, of people around the world, not just our community. Most of those needs are ones we can’t or won’t help meet.
How do we decide whom to help? How do we avoid serving in a half-hearted way, over-committing ourselves, or just becoming numb to needs of others?
There is a difference between an interest, a concern, a burden, and a passion. With an interest we may like to learn about a need. With a concern, we may se Read more »
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Why You Should NOT Respond to Every Need
Monday, March 19, 2012“Muscle Cars! Really?!”
Monday, October 17, 2011
“Yeah, I know a lot about the cars, the industry, and the people who attend the events. I’ve always been interested in them!”
This was the response from one man when I asked him what things he’d learned a lot about over the years. I then asked him, “How do you think the Lord could use your knowledge of muscle cars for His purposes?”
He’d never thought about it.
As we talked about using his life experiences, struggles and drivers in co Read more »
Loving People with the Abilities that Energize You
Monday, August 15, 2011
Do you view your Drivers (abilities that energize you) as some of your best resources for touching people’s lives—for showing them Christ’s love? Often we don’t think of building, envisioning, designing, improving, facilitating, strategic thinking, etc., as important for God’s purposes.
People who have done accounting, strategic thinking, and coordinating for me have been a huge blessing. I have felt profoundly loved by them as they’ve used the Read more »
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