March 2012 Blog Posts (4)

Perhaps you have noticed, I have not posted for a week.  Since returning home from SYMC my life has been crazy.  I have been fulfilling a lot of different identities and "blogger" has not been one of them.  I have been living out part of my book (The Youth Ministry Paradigm) the past several days.  Since it is going to be out in a month or two, I want to give you a preview.  This excerpt is from chapter 4:…

Continuing with the question, What does it look like to treat men like men?

Trust.

About 2005 Promise Keepers was promoting accountability. In men,s groups across the country somewhere or some time the words were spoken. The plea was voiced. What is said here, stays here. In relieve men nodded agreement.

As I tried to tickle this apart to express the notion that we are called to trust because in doing so, we reflect the image we…

,,,washing the feet of the saints...I Timothy 5:10

       

     From the time our children were infants, they were taken to foot washing services.  They came to realize the importance of this act of humility which was ordained by Jesus Himself in much the same way that He ordained baptism and communion.  Our son Rick was ten years old when he played on the A's, a Little League baseball team.  And he…

If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet: ye also ought to wash one another's feet.  For I have given you an example,that ye shoud do as I have done to you.  John 13:14,15