Training for Reigning Institute of Disciple Making

Prayer Request for Honduras Mission — May 19-27th, 2012

wade — Thu, 17 May 2012 01:43:49 +0000

Please be praying for Pastor Wade and the upcoming mission trip to Langue, Honduras with the Christian Medical and Dental Association organization, lead by Dr. Andy Sanders. The 25 member team, consisting of numerous doctors, dentist, nurses, and other personnel, and one pastor (guess who?) will leave May 19th and return on May 27th. Pray [...]

Hope in the Lord’s Mercies is the Only Treatment for Misery — Part 2

wade — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:07:06 +0000

(Read Lamentations 3:17 — 36) In spite of the book of Lamentations being the most mournful, misery-filled, of all the books in the Bible, it contains five verses in Chapter Three that make it the most hope-filled book in the Bible! Several different Hebrew words in this chapter are used to translated the word “hope”: [...]

Hope in the Lord’s Mercies — The Only Treatment for Misery –Part 1

wade — Tue, 08 May 2012 23:08:10 +0000

(Read Lamentations 3:17-26) Misery loves company and sooner or later all of us find ourselves in the throes of misery’s woes. You pray, you work, you try to do what is right, but nothing good seems to come of it. The faster you run the further behind you seem to get. It seems as if [...]

Prisoners of Hope!

wade — Wed, 02 May 2012 10:44:46 +0000

Zechariah 9:12, “Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double.” The people of Zechariah’s day were still prisoners under the yoke of a foreign government. They had waited so long for the fulfilling of the promises of God that they were no longer “standing on [...]

Are You a Carrier of the Christ And Syndrome?

wade — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:33:01 +0000

In C. S. Lewis’s book, Screwtape Letters, the devil’s strategy is revealed. Lewis believed that the primary tactic of the devil was not to remove Christ altogether from the scene, but to propagate a “Christ And Type” religion. The book contains thirty-one letters from Screwtape, an upper-level demon, to a lower level demon named Wormwood, [...]

The New Math of Grace-based Living

wade — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:28:40 +0000

Act 20:24, “But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.” In this verse the Apostle Paul reveals that for him the [...]

Rehearsing in the Present the Future that Lies Ahead

wade — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:59:40 +0000

For centuries, prior to the advent of Christ, men had queried, “What is the reason for our being? Is there a meta-narrative – a Story big enough to make all of our individual stories make sense? Is there life beyond the grave? Is death the victor? Shall our departed loved ones ever be restored to [...]

The End of Time has Come into the Middle of Time!

wade — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:10:25 +0000

What does the resurrection mean? What is Easter really about then? Basically it means that God’s new creation is launched upon a surprised world, pointing ahead to the redemption and the renewal of the entire creation. The future has burst into the present. The new creation, and with it the resurrection, has come forward from [...]

Climbing the Rainbow Through the Rain – Part 2

wade — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:34:56 +0000

Last week we learned that the phrase that makes up the title of our study originated with the blind hymn writer George Matheson. If his going blind were not enough, there followed the heartbreak of the love of his life breaking their engagement due to his handicap. Out of the heartbreak he writes these words: [...]

Climbing the Rainbow Through the Rain!

wade — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:23:20 +0000

How does one handle the floods of devastating situations that come sweeping into one’s life? How does one deal with the torrential rains of relational and domestic problems that threaten to drive us into a state of solitary confinement? How does one survive, yea, even thrive, in midst of the hail storms of life, where [...]