Weekly Ministry Tip #4 Continuing in Psalm 63 from last week, verse 3 says, “Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.” How do we define God’s love? Here are two other cross references in Psalms: Psalm 36:7 “How priceless is your unfailing love!”. Psalm 13:5 “But I trust in your …
Weekly Ministry Tip #3 Remember God Photo by Bill Hamway on Unsplash Psalms 63:2 “I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory.” Read this passage in context of verses 1-8 of Psalm 63. David is perhaps remembering a time when he experienced the joy of knowing God, and was present in the …
Collaborative Bible Study Four Steps To Begin Your Ministry Connect “What is it that you enjoy most about being at your ministry location? (For example, your campus, city, neighborhood, work, etc.)?” Cultivate Summary: Four keys for a growing ministry. Read: John 1:35-42 Step 1 – Invite In verses 35-39, what do you think motivated the …
Weekly Ministry Tip #2 Below is a picture of the desert of Judah, which is on the western side of the Dead Sea. In Psalm 63:1, David writes from the Judean desert, “… earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there …
First, read these two important articles here, and here. Second, go to this link to the fairly new “Collaborative Discipleship” Bible study lessons: https://www.cru.org/us/en/train-and-grow/help-others-grow/collaborative-discipleship/lessons.html As you scroll down, you’ll see the perspective on the study series. Then down near the bottom you’ll see all the studies. If you download and open up in your phone, tablet, …
Weekly Ministry Tips – Fall 2018 With God, First Things First Psalm 63 is a beautiful Psalm written by David when he was in the desert of Judah over 3,000 years ago. In verses 63:1-8, the first thing you’ll notice is that David acknowledges, “O God, you are my God…” In order for the rest of this chapter …
Weekly Tips, Spring 2018 #9 Three weeks ago, Bekele Shanko, Vice-President of Global Church-Led Movements with Campus Crusade for Christ, shared his testimony in a church service in Orlando. He described the miracles as he saw his life, his family, and his village in Ethiopia, transformed by the Gospel of Jesus Christ. When you get a …
Weekly Tip #8, Spring 2018 Psalms 34:4-7 Seek, Look To, Call Out, and Fear Him When we truly seek God, look to Him, call out to Him, and fear Him, there are some great promises awaiting. Check out Psalms 34 and discover what God has to say in the second half of each verse. You’ll be very encouraged. …
Weekly Tips, Spring 2018 #7 Does God Exist? Here’s what I read in my devotional yesterday from Psalm 27 1 The Lord is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid? 4 One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek: that …
