No amount of sophisticated pulpit theatrics can come close to the simple power of a Christ-centered sermon. You can do a perfect talk show in the pulpit, show visually compelling presentations and have a catchy script for the whole act. But when Christ is absent from your sermon, when the gospel is diluted in the name of sophistication and relevance and when the blood of Jesus is omitted from your talk, you are just wasting everyone else’s time. For if it’s not Chirst that you are proclaiming, what in the world are you doing in God’s pulpit?
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Read and Learn from Other Leaders (Video)
Read and Learn from Other Leaders (by wcavideo)
Changing Too Fast
The world is changing too fast. Without the spark of initiative, you have no choice but to simply react to the world. Without the ability to instigate and experiment, you are stuck, adrift, waiting to be shoved.
—Seth Godin
There I Will Give You My Love
Come, my beloved,
let us go out into the fields
and lodge in the villages;
let us go out early to the vineyards
and see whether the vines have budded,
whether the grape blossoms have opened
and the pomegranates are in bloom.
There I will give you my love.
The mandrakes give forth fragrance,
and beside our doors are all choice fruits,
new as well as old,
which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.
Song of Solomon 7.11-13 (these verses were sung by the woman)
Come, let us go to the countryside and enjoy the beauty of God’s creation. Let us meet people from the village, interact with them, be friends with them, get to know them. Let us expand the breadth of our social lives and see what awaits us there.
Let us go out and see if the seeds we planted are fully grown and are in bloom. Let’s go and see if the fields we tilled together are alive, if the relationship we hoped to cultivate is really worth pursuing. Let’s find out if the idea of us being together and working together is beneficial for both of us.
If we realize that things look good, then I will give you my love.
The thing is that even before I give you my love, I have already stored up fruits for you in my house. I have already prepared my household for your arrival. I knew you were coming all along.
Four Days to Go
Starting the countdown to Friday, August 5, when the School of Local Church Ministry officially ends. Big thanks to everyone who stood with me and believed with me: AgotLegacy, Caloocan and U-Belt people and all my friends from everywhere.
Big Thanks!
Starting the countdown to Friday, August 5, when the School of Local Church Ministry officially ends. Big thanks to everyone who stood with me and believed with me: AgotLegacy, Caloocan and U-Belt people and all my friends from everywhere.
Jojo Agot 