We need to seek out people and, by a process of mutual engagement, release the spark placed in them through the power of the Holy Spirit.
The View from Here
Letโs commit to building some discipline into our prayer and spiritual lives this year.
Imagine what the church would look like if we were able to put aside our political and theological differences and instead develop a common language based on our shared identity in Christ.
Stories about the spread of Christian ministry in tough places in a pre-Christian world should give us hope that God will continue to work through us to reach others and change lives.
Obviously, church is much more than a building.
๋ชจ๋ ์๋ค์ํผ ๊ตํ๋ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ ๊ทธ ์ด์์ ๋๋ค.
While aging often includes a relinquishing of our former physical abilities, I believe it also includes the development of new and lasting memories, capabilities, and wisdom.
๋ฌธ๋งฅ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
Little did we know that within a few weeks, the rise of COVID-19 would force us to revisit this question.
In the midst of all of this change and societal chaos, the church is standing tall.
์ด ๋ชจ๋ ๋ณํ์ ์ฌํ์ ํผ๋ ๊ฐ์ด๋ฐ์ ๊ตํ๋ ๊ตณ๊ฑดํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ์์ ์ธ์ ์คํ ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋์ด์ผ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ํ๋๋์ด ๋ ํฐ ๊ณํ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ๊ณ์ฌ์ด ๋ช ํํด์ง๋๋ค.
When we reflect on our life stories, it often becomes clear that God had a bigger plan in mind.
์ฑ๊ฒฝ์ ๋ชจ๋ ์ผ์ ๋์ญํ๋ ํ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ๊ถ๊ณ ์ ์๋ก ๊ฐ๋ํฉ๋๋ค.
The Bible is replete with examples of partnerships and exhortations to work together in all things.
์นด๋: ์ ๋ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ๋ค๊ป ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ฌ๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋๋๊ป์ ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ฃผ๊ดํ์ฌ์ ํ์คํ ์๊ณ ์ด ๋์ ์ ๋ง์ฃผํ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ด๊ตฌํฉ๋๋ค.
I would urge us to face these challenges with the full knowledge that the God we serve continues to have everything under control.
์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ตํ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ ์ฑ๊ฒฝ์ ์ฝ์ผ๋ฉฐ ๊ธฐํ ์์ฑ ํ๋ จ์ ํตํด ์ฑ๋ น์ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ผ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ถ๊ณผ ๊ณต๋์ฒด๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์ค๋๋ฅผ ์ํด ๋ณํ ์ํต๋๋ค.
Our church is praying, reading Scripture, and practicing other spiritual disciplines, historical and new, transforming our lives and communities for Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit.
์ ๊ฐ ํ ๊ตํ์ ๋ด์ ๋ชฉ์ฌ์์ ๋, ๋งค๋ ์ ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ข์ํ๋ ์ฃผ์ผ์ โํ๋ ๋์ญ ์ฃผ์ผโ์ด์์ต๋๋ค.
When I served as senior pastor in a local church, one of my favorite Sundays each year was โFriendship Sunday.โ
Have we ever wondered what younger generations think about us? What do they think we view as important? What do they hear us say?
์ ์ ์ธ๋๋ค์ด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์๊ฐํ๋ ์ง ์๊ฐํด ๋ณด์ จ์ต๋๊น? ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๊ฐ์น์ ๋ํด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์๊ฐํ ๊น์? ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ง์ ๋ฃ๊ธฐ๋ ํ ๊น์?
The Savior has come and is coming again. In our foolishness, as we wait for this return, we often put our sights on the material idols of our day.