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An informal visit to someone’s home, once or other appropriate place are probably the oldest and most universal of all social interactions. In our busy, contemporary world, however, it has lost most...
Disappointments. Unfulfilled expectations. Unwelcome surprises. Very often they result from unrealistic expectations and vague hopes. Sometime they hit us broadside, when we should have seen them...
Why do we need to learn to listen? We’ve been hearing since before we left our mother’s womb, and we haven’t stopped yet, in this noisy world of ours. Well, for one thing, “hearing” and “listening”...
Trust is built through compassion. Winning the confidence of others cannot be forced or manipulated, but it is built through non-manipulative, caring love. It often happens in everyday little things....
Let’s begin by defining friendship evangelism. Most people become Christians and join the church because of a friend, a relative or someone they know. In the late 1970s, Dr. Gottfried Oosterwal,...
Showing compassion to those around you is the second step in friendship evangelism. A simple but powerful demonstration of compassion is through the act of listening. The paradigm in The Ministry of...
The third step in sharing your faith with others is to minister to their needs. Ministry springs from a heart touched by God’s unconditional love expressed in service toward the practical needs of...
The paradigm we are using is found in The Ministry of Healing on page 143. It describes the approach used by Christ and includes five verbs. The first one is introduced in these terms; “The Savior...
Sharing the gospel best happens in an open, trusting relationship, using language relevant to the context and needs of the person with whom you are sharing. In the paradigm for the ministry of Christ...
Many people grow up with a fairly defined view of life: Do good and you go to heaven, do bad and you go to hell. So the basic human problem is trying to do good and trying to not do bad. Your outcome...
This presentation is designed for people who have not yet come to a point in their spiritual journey where they have decided to become a follower of Jesus.
We live in a world that is filled with conflict and alienation, a world of fragmented and broken relationships, a world of lost dreams and personal failures. People are hurting for all kinds of...
The teacher in a children’s Sunday school class asked what faith was. A little boy raised his hand and said, “Faith is believin’ what you know ain’t true.” Many people have that concept of faith....
John Dunne wrote about some early Spanish sailors who reached the continent of South America after an arduous voyage. The fleet sailed into the headwaters of the Amazon, an expanse of water so wide...
There are two things that are endemic to the human condition. Number one, we all have heart hungers, deep longings that sometimes seem so hard to fill; dissatisfaction with the way things are, a...
How do you know what you know? When we have a conversation with someone about God or the Bible we usu- ally ask questions about the content of our faith. People who are curious about faith typically...
Newsweek magazine reported on a statue that sits in Manhattan on Fifth Avenue near the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s a three-foot statue of Cupid in a courtyard fountain. Thousands of people walk...
Eschatology is the study of the end of history and the world as we know it. It relates to the ultimate destiny of humanity. It is from two the Greek words; eschatos, meaning “last” and logy, meaning...
Your life is like either a small bowl of still water or a wide, deep and fl owing river. The truth is, we cannot keep the “salt” from entering our lives—pain, crisis, difficulties, distasteful people...
Ziggy, clothed in his swim suit, is standing on the beach. He’s holding a big shell up to his ear, listening. A voice from inside says, “Good afternoon, sir. I represent the Crustacean Liberation...
