Category: Ministry
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Humble Service (Part 1)
Philippians 2:1-11 ESV[1] So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, [2] complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. [3] Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but…
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The Son and the Vineyard
At first he said, “I will not go; The vineyard I won’t tend. There are better things that I could do. A hand I will not lend.” He wrote a lot of poetry and played the piano too; and his career was doing well- this was what he loved to do. But his father loved…
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A Balanced Spirituality
Here’s the outline of a talk I gave a talk to the leaders of Ikthus East Bacolod City last 26 January 2019 at Beracha Farms, Alangilan, on How a Christian Leader Sets Priorities. Here’s the outline/manuscript (please note that the actual talk varies from the manuscript, significantly at times): It’s possible to go to extremes when…
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Full-time Ministry
“So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen in front of him, and he was with the twelfth. Elijah passed by him and cast his cloak upon him. And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, ‘Let me kiss my…
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What to Do During a Sabbatical
“In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.” (Isaiah 30:15) For a minister, a sabbatical is a time to rest in order that one may gather strength for the work of ministry. In other words, a sabbatical is a strategic retreat. A minister engages in a season of rest not in order to abandon the…
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God is Looking for Good Grapes
“Now let me sing to my Well-beloved A song of my Beloved regarding His vineyard: My Well-beloved has a vineyard On a very fruitful hill. He dug it up and cleared out its stones, And planted it with the choicest vine. He built a tower in its midst, And also made a winepress in it;…
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The Contemplative Pastor
My conviction is that the pastor must refuse to be shaped by the culture, whether secular or ecclesiastical, and insist on becoming a person of prayer in the community of worship. This is our assigned task; anything less or other is malpractice. – Eugene Peterson, Take and Read
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Why I Rarely Preach Nowadays
If we will acknowledge the ministry a particular office in the church of Christ … then we must also confess it is not anyone’s work, though never so able, except called to the office…. Those that are not sent and commissionated by God’s call for ministerial work, they may speak truths as well as they…
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Abundant in Good Works
But our faith makes us abundant in good works. May I say to you, if you are doing all you possibly can for Christ, endeavour to do yet more? I believe a Christian man is generally right when he is doing more than he can; and when he goes still further beyond that point, he…
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God Calls for Our Best, and We Give Him the Worst
And as many reserve the dregs of their lives, their old age, to offer up their souls to God, so they reserve the dregs of the day, their sleeping time, for the offering up their service to him. How many grudge to spend their best time in the serving the will of God, and reserve…
PHILIPPINE THEO LAW GEE 