by ccpwebteam | Sep 22, 2017 | Spiritual Life
In his book How to be Filled with the Holy Spirit, A.W. Tozer writes this pretty surprising sentence: To God, our thoughts are things. That sentence stopped me when I read it. Does it grab you? I think most of us assume the opposite, that our thoughts are not things...
by ccpwebteam | Sep 12, 2017 | Missions, Spiritual Life, Technology
A few Mondays ago we took the evening to consider social media, and four major concerns a Christian should have when they consider if and how to use it. Soon after I posted the notes, a friend who is serving the Lord overseas sent me this reaction: I just read the...
by ccpwebteam | Sep 5, 2017 | Monday Study Notes, Spiritual Life
Last night on the front field, while Jake grilled, I offered some encouragement for the Fall ahead. Here are the notes: Staying Alert // Labor Day 2017 What Jesus Said: Matthew 24:42-43 “Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. But...
by ccpwebteam | Aug 31, 2017 | Spiritual Life
Sometime in the last few years of the first century or first few years of the second–in other words, within living memory of the Apostles–the leader of the church in Rome wrote a letter to the church in Corinth. It was the same church Paul wrote both of...
by ccpwebteam | Aug 30, 2017 | Culture, Spiritual Life, Technology
On Monday night we took some time to think about a topic that has become important, only because so many of us are so involved with it—social media. Now, no one who is in the position of teaching the word is ever supposed to use the time or position just to...
by ccpwebteam | Jul 26, 2017 | Culture, Spiritual Life
The last two posts have looked at the difference between the way Jesus and the Apostles promised freedom, and the way people typically think about freedom today. Of course, we’ve seen the two ways of thinking are basically opposite. So when Jesus...
