Life Together: A Mutual Dependency

Continuing on with the current series, I will be commenting on the next devotion in the Purpose Driven Life – A Mutual Dependency.   To read the whole devotion, click here. How many Christians would see that authentic Christian life can be seen in the word interdependence?  Rev. Warren starts of this devotion by saying, [...]

Life Together: Authentic Friendships

Continuing on our journey of discovery, this is the second installment of the Life Together series, where we are exploring corporate life together, with Rev Rick Warren and Purposed Driven Life. Here’s the devotional in its entirety. Now, to my thoughts.  The first thing that jumps out at me is this quote: Authentic fellowship is [...]

Life Together Series: A Shared Life

I remember the last time I did a series off of my Purpose Driven Life devotionals that come up in my in-box. They were on love – love is an action, a decision, a habit, and others.  This is another series from the same source.   Coming off of the last two posts on The [...]

The Shape of the Church (Part II)

I’ve just gotten a great post in my Reader today, from Kingdom Grace .. and she’s pointed me to another great website that goes along the same topic as we’re discussing here Wayne Jacobsen’s blog LifeStream is dealing with “Starting A House Church”.   So I’m delving into what even more people are saying about [...]

The Shape of the Church

For those who don’t know, I’m a part of what some would call a ‘house church.’ We meet in each other’s homes and exist with a paradigm that tries to break ‘Christianity’ down to its essentials – relationship with God, and man. (See Matthew 22:36-39) Some members of the Body of Christ have been recently [...]

Mentoring the Gifts

My friend Annie (http://callingtodeep.blogspot.com) is front and centre in this post today. She was explaining what she feels she is called to here on our friend Tam’s blog…And I think the vision God is giving is important enough to highlight here So, Annie – let’s see where God goes with this Tam’s post was Don’t [...]

Rhythm of Life – Walking with God with the Church

I had the privilege of reading this great post recently at From Eden to Zion, where the author speaks to his rhythm of life that he commits to as a bare minimum to interact with the body of Christ. You can read the article here. He also mentions here how he incorporates rhythm in his [...]