Playlist: Salome’s Honor
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Playlist DBJ-SHON: Salome’s Honor
StandardSalome, the mother of James and John, and her complicated relationship to advancing the ministry of Jesus.
Continue readingD-Church: What God is Doing Next?
Standard“I am D-Church,
You are D-Church,
We are D-Church together….”
God seems to be doing something new in the body of Christ.
Cleansing Streams Retreat Review
StandardOn November 13th and 14th, Sandhya I attended the Retreat portion of the Cleansing Streams Seminar. Since there isn’t a lot of information about this online, I thought I should document our experience. Plus, God did some significant things in my life that I want to memorialize…
LEAD! C.8 Submission and Service
StandardIn Which We Triumph By Surrendering
Submission is the key to understanding and exercising divine authority. Not merely submitting to God, but also to other humans — even those we might be tempted to count our inferiors — in order to serve them.
Crucially, our service must not spring from codependency or a need to be liked, but from a single-minded devotion to our Lord Jesus Christ, who made Himself a servant for our sake.
For only if we serve as Jesus served can we triumph as He triumphs.
Memory Verse: “For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus’ sake.” — 2 Corinthians 4:5 (NKJV)
Assigned Reading
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Richard Foster: Celebration of Discipline
- 8. Submission
- 9. Service
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Donald Whitney: Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life
- 7. Serving
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Eugene Peterson: A Long Obedience in the Same Direction
- 5. Service: “Like Servants . . . We’re Watching & Waiting”
- 15. Community: “Like Costly Anointing Oil Flowing Down Head & Beard”
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Ruth Haley Barton: Sacred Rhythms
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