After attending Seedbed’s New Room Leaders Gathering in February, I realized that using the language of “personal surrender” had worn thin with me in talking to adult discipleship students….. The language of “consecration” of self (as we...
Pastor Craig Carter in his sermon on Sunday used a word I have also come to use in referring to our church campus and all church campuses….”outpost.” As a new year has begun, it and the circumstances of recent weeks have aided in a review of our...
Written in response to the April 12 Seedbed Daily Text on membership in the “elder class:” I am 68. I have a few arthritic joints and my eyesight isn’t the best (but I look forward to when my ophthalmologist tells me my cataracts are...
Words spoken reveal the beliefs of the speaker and influence the beliefs of the hearer. Anytime I hear the cultural iteration of “body, soul, and spirit” spoken by a Christian, I cringe….. like fingernails scratching a chalk board…..1 Thessalonians 5:23 Paul...
I have written before about how frequently I awaken with a song playing in my mind, a hymn for the day, more or less. I hum or sing it as I arise and go about my day. On October 19, 2020, that song was a simple little song from my childhood: “A sunbeam, a sunbeam,...
