mercy
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Posted on May 15, 2012, 1:05 am | 1 comment
Hospitality can take many different forms as it's expressed through different people and in a variety of situations. Lately I've been thinking about hospitality as an act of mercy. Mercy for the person who is alone. Mercy for the person who feels uncomfortable in a social setting. Mercy for the person who needs assistance.
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Posted on January 5, 2012, 12:20 pm | 4 comments
Topics: Pastors
Van Gogh once wrote, “I prefer painting people’s eyes to cathedrals, for there is something in the eyes that is not in the cathedral, however solemn and imposing the latter may be – a human soul, be it that of a poor beggar or of a street walker, is more interesting to me.” I will never forget the day I experienced Van Gogh’s truth for myself.
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Posted on July 4, 2011, 9:38 pm | 4 comments
Topics: Community, Spiritual Health
Everything in our being craves shalom. This is why when we see people hurting, we want them to be free of their pain. We know it's not right. It's not what God intended. So, we try to rescue them, perhaps we even try to be their saviour... but is that what we're called to?
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Posted on November 15, 2010, 5:58 pm | 8 comments
Topics: Getting Started
Grace demands change; it holds us accountable. How do we do that with fellow humans -- hold this balance between undeserved but conditional? "Grace is undeserved caring that intercepts destructive behavior".
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Posted on September 14, 2010, 2:44 pm | 2 comments
Topics: Deacons
In the past two years’ flurry of news headlines about the world’s financial meltdown, little attention was given to the work of deacons in the church. But their work is exactly what our world needs. In many ways the meltdown was caused by a lack of biblical imagination about what money is, and how it should be used (and not used). In their intervention and prevention work, deacons offer exactly the ministry and message our world needs...
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Posted on June 28, 2010, 4:25 pm
Topics: Organization
Should we change our staffing in larger churches so we are more intentional about mercy ministries? What have you done that works? How are you engaging members at your church in mercy ministries?
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Posted on April 6, 2010, 9:20 am
Topics: Getting Started
The office of deacon is a unique and divine calling within the church. Although you were chosen by members of your church, you have been called and appointed by God himself to this role. The Christian Reformed Church regards the office of deacon as being of equal standing with the offices of elder and pastor. Although serving...
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