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“Living Like Jesus Did” : Go to Deep Water
Let’s review a bit from the last three sessions: We can live like Jesus Did if we know the Father like Jesus Did Knowing Who You are Determines What You Do We have received tremendous spiritual blessings in Christ(and that is where we must live) Living Like Jesus Did can only happen through the power…
Managing the Money Monster | Week 2: Financial Planning & “Success”(Ron Blue, Chapter 3 & 4)
As we discovered by your homework of last week, the commitments you already have circumscribe your financial freedom, and the priorities you have help to dictate the allocation of resources. You will recall the five short term uses of money: give it away, spend to support lifestyle, repay debt, use for taxes, save or accumulate. …
Managing the Money Monster | Week 3: The Battle of the Budget (Larry Burkett)
Practical Guidelines to Spending Money(Adapted from Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions and Eternity, Tyndale House, 1989) Nothing is a good deal if you can’t afford it God isn’t behind every good deal Understand the difference between spending money and saving money Resist manipulative advertising Know that Little things Add up Proverbs 21:20, “In the house of…
Managing the Money Monster | Week 4: Becoming Debt Free (Austin Pryor, chapter 2-3)
Proverbs 22:7 The rich rules over the poor, And the borrower {becomes} the lender’s slave. I have know personally the “cost” of debt, when it was not just dollars and sense, but peace and security. In my list of ten financial principles that will last you a lifetime(from week 3), one of them states that…
Managing the Money Monster | Week 5: Emergency Fund, Savings & Investing(Austin Pryor, chapter 4-6)
We have discussed a variety of topics these last several weeks. Most of them have been designed to get us to the place where we can have some “free cash flow”. There are really only two sides of that equation: Income & Expense. We have spent the majority of time on the Expense side of…
God’s Call to Move Beyond “Business As Usual”
“The wicked man flees though no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion” (Prov 28:1). “Same place. Same thing. Same results” Business as usual just won’t cut it anymore. The church has been a bedrock foundation of Western society for hundreds of years, but today the church is standing on the…
Managing the Money Monster | Week 6: Retirement Planning (Austin Pryor, chapters 25-30)
Today’s retirees are the wealthiest in U.S. History. Baby Boomers can reasonably expect to live 20-25 years past retirement. It is literally becoming the “third phase” in people’s lives. In it, you hope to move from “success” to “significance”. Recommend to you Bob Buford’s book “Halftime”, which will both encourage and stimulate your thinking on…
Presence Filled Ministries
We carry a vision to transform the mountains of culture for the glory of God. We believe that God is good and that He longs for the church to occupy and have a redemptive love for the world until He returns. From the context of our role at William Jessup University, we believe that God…
The Prevailing Church: Confronting the Giants of Culture
In the fall of 2020, I was increasingly burdened by the condition of our culture; the combination of the covid-19 impacts, social unrest, political upheaval, and economic uncertainty had combined to create a tidal wave of disequilibrium in our world. In that season, I felt compelled to write what was on my heart and mind.…
Simplicity and Complexity for our Troubled Times
Former Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes is reported to have said “I wouldn’t give a fig for simplicity this side of complexity but I’d give my right arm for simplicity on the other side of complexity”. That thought has been rolling around in my mind as I think about transformational leadership for our troubled times. Tension…