Family Ten Ideas for Spiritual Growth Growing spiritually is the work of a lifetime. Pick something on the list and take another step forward ...Repent of a self-absorbed lifestyle and be baptized for the forgiveness of your sins and to receive the Holy Spirit.Pick a regular time, pla... Read more Simple Steps for Spiritual Growth "Be like Jesus, this my song,In the home and in the throng;Be like Jesus all day long,I would be like Jesus."Is this just a well-known hymn or can it be a well-known experience in our lives? What does it take to be a joyful, fully-devoted disciple... Read more Editors' Note EDITORS' NOTE: In the second installment of this year's emphasis on Rethinking Stewardship, we take a look at how good stewardship begins with a personal commitment to giving and living your life for Christ. Read more Stewardship It's All About Life Last month I shared how I was privileged, early on in my ministry, to share Wednesday afternoons with Mel Rees. Around his dining room table I learned some "big ideas" about stewardship. These are ideas I still believe in and remember. The first b... Read more The Spirit is Still Willing With all due respect to the Holy Scriptures, The Desire of Ages and other inspirational books, I cut my earliest theological teeth on Uncle Arthur's Bible Stories.Before I could decipher words, the colorful pictures there painted a graphic portray... Read more Position and Wealth Take a Hike Recently I took a long hike with a friend. We began early in the day and took just enough water and snacks to significantly weigh our packs, yet never fill us — an interesting commentary about trail mix. We passed fellow hikers on switch back afte... Read more Teen Raises Money for Homeless Classmates Zachary Chandler, a 17 year-old boy from Battleground, Washington, took a Kingdom Assignment and earned money for homeless teens.Chandler is a senior this year at Battle Ground High School. Like the others, he was given $100. Chandler used his see... Read more Kingdom Assignment Yields a Horse Barn A 65–70 year-old man took the $100 but didn't know what to do with it. He almost gave it back, but then decided to help a neighbor build a horse barn. The neighbor wanted to board horses as a source of income. He promised to share a portion of the... Read more Definition Kingdom A$ Definition Kingdom Assignment: Creative strategy to catapult congregations to become externally focused.Who? Ordinary individuals.Why? To touch your community for Jesus Christ.How? One act of kindness at a time.When? A term first coined by the Chr... Read more Charity Baseball Game On Sabbath, March 7, 2009, the Upper Columbia Conference hosted an IMPACT — UNLEASH THE POWER OF KINDNESS Sabbath in Tri-Cities, Washington. David Jamieson, keynote speaker, gave out seven $100 bills (supplied by the UCC) to seven individuals. Acc... Read more A Church Takes Kingdom Assignments Members of the North Cascade Church in Burlington, Washington, used Kingdom Assignment to fulfill and strengthen already existing ministries. "Participants were to let God lead them in how to fulfill their assignments," says Tim Williams, NCC yout... Read more Stewardship: It's All About Him After finishing seminary, I became the pastor of the Woodland (Wash.) Church which was exciting, challenging and a bit intimidating because Mel Rees was a member of the congregation. Rees was the Oregon Conference stewardship director and the reco... Read more Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous … Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Current page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 … Next page Next › Last page Last »
Ten Ideas for Spiritual Growth Growing spiritually is the work of a lifetime. Pick something on the list and take another step forward ...Repent of a self-absorbed lifestyle and be baptized for the forgiveness of your sins and to receive the Holy Spirit.Pick a regular time, pla... Read more
Simple Steps for Spiritual Growth "Be like Jesus, this my song,In the home and in the throng;Be like Jesus all day long,I would be like Jesus."Is this just a well-known hymn or can it be a well-known experience in our lives? What does it take to be a joyful, fully-devoted disciple... Read more
Editors' Note EDITORS' NOTE: In the second installment of this year's emphasis on Rethinking Stewardship, we take a look at how good stewardship begins with a personal commitment to giving and living your life for Christ. Read more
Stewardship It's All About Life Last month I shared how I was privileged, early on in my ministry, to share Wednesday afternoons with Mel Rees. Around his dining room table I learned some "big ideas" about stewardship. These are ideas I still believe in and remember. The first b... Read more
The Spirit is Still Willing With all due respect to the Holy Scriptures, The Desire of Ages and other inspirational books, I cut my earliest theological teeth on Uncle Arthur's Bible Stories.Before I could decipher words, the colorful pictures there painted a graphic portray... Read more
Position and Wealth Take a Hike Recently I took a long hike with a friend. We began early in the day and took just enough water and snacks to significantly weigh our packs, yet never fill us — an interesting commentary about trail mix. We passed fellow hikers on switch back afte... Read more
Teen Raises Money for Homeless Classmates Zachary Chandler, a 17 year-old boy from Battleground, Washington, took a Kingdom Assignment and earned money for homeless teens.Chandler is a senior this year at Battle Ground High School. Like the others, he was given $100. Chandler used his see... Read more
Kingdom Assignment Yields a Horse Barn A 65–70 year-old man took the $100 but didn't know what to do with it. He almost gave it back, but then decided to help a neighbor build a horse barn. The neighbor wanted to board horses as a source of income. He promised to share a portion of the... Read more
Definition Kingdom A$ Definition Kingdom Assignment: Creative strategy to catapult congregations to become externally focused.Who? Ordinary individuals.Why? To touch your community for Jesus Christ.How? One act of kindness at a time.When? A term first coined by the Chr... Read more
Charity Baseball Game On Sabbath, March 7, 2009, the Upper Columbia Conference hosted an IMPACT — UNLEASH THE POWER OF KINDNESS Sabbath in Tri-Cities, Washington. David Jamieson, keynote speaker, gave out seven $100 bills (supplied by the UCC) to seven individuals. Acc... Read more
A Church Takes Kingdom Assignments Members of the North Cascade Church in Burlington, Washington, used Kingdom Assignment to fulfill and strengthen already existing ministries. "Participants were to let God lead them in how to fulfill their assignments," says Tim Williams, NCC yout... Read more
Stewardship: It's All About Him After finishing seminary, I became the pastor of the Woodland (Wash.) Church which was exciting, challenging and a bit intimidating because Mel Rees was a member of the congregation. Rees was the Oregon Conference stewardship director and the reco... Read more
