Vision Clarity is my Habitat
Recently, I presented at a cutting edge Evangelism conference. The conference hosted leaders from around the world who are using the Internet as a portal to reach on-line seekers. Citing statistic after statistic about the dearth of Christian witness among the millennial generation and how the Internet could fill that gap, I was struck by […]
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In my last post, I wrote about a friend who has struggled over the years with an addiction to his work and his insight that he had internalized the message that work would set him free. Somehow, Work had become a tireless task master who was running his life and was showing no signs of […]
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Genesis 18 is a remarkable passage layered with cosmic significance and questions about long-suffering and the power of prayer. From the beginning, Abraham’s value of hospitality for his divine guests is on full display. Abraham rushes around with urgency and gives these visitors his best. Despite their best hospitality, however, the announcement of the child […]
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Abram is focussed on his vision and has “believed” God, but this doesn’t stop him from making a contingency plan in chapter 16. The decision to take Hagar as a surrogate for Sarai is predictably tragic. We think Abram should know better than this, but we are all tempted to change the rules when we […]
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After saving Lot, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield; your reward will be very great” Genesis 15:1. Abram had just successfully flexed his leadership muscles. He gathered his fighting men and created an alliance with other leaders to rescue his uncle […]
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If the birth of a vision is an awareness of being seen by God, responding to him in worship and receiving his promise that we have a role in his emerging reign, then sustaining vision an extended period of working-the-time-of-waiting. God has used an extended time of waiting for many leader to prepare them for the […]
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1YHWH said to Avram: Go-you-forth from your land, from your kindred, from your father’s house, to the land I will let you see. 2I will make a great nation of you and will give-you-blessing and will make your name great. Be a blessing! -Genesis 12:1, The Five Books of Moses, The Schocken Bible, Volume I. […]
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The Great Commission narratives either directly state to “go” or to “be sent,” but from where to where? I am beginning to see the entire Bible can be viewed through the missional lens of “going” or “being sent.” In the first eleven chapters of Genesis, God send humans out five times to “multiply, fill the earth and […]
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Could it be possible to create a model for spiritual formation based upon the Great Commission? Go with the Holy Spirit: Proclaiming, making disciples, being a witness, and forgiving. There is something in me that doesn’t like formulas when it comes to spiritual formation, but I have seen the gospel internalized in myself and others […]
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Noah’s descendants were to fill the earth and divide into nations, but they didn’t get very far. God had repeatedly instructed the humans to “multiply, fill the earth and subdue it,” but instead they settled in a valley, built a city and a tower in order to “make for ourselves a name lest we be […]
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