My Commonplace Book

“The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.”-Russell Simmons
How do we lead faculty and students to engage mission as a way of life? As movement leaders, we’re always in the process of directing our movement’s imagination toward new possibilities and applications. Henry Ward Beecher once described faith as “spiritualized imagination.” David [...]

The Church is the foretaste, sign and instrument of the Kingdom. A taste of the truth of the Gospel which speaks of a future hope, a sign pointing beyond itself to Christ and His coming Kingdom, and an instrument of grace to a broken world.–Lesslie Newbigin

The Church is the foretaste, sign and instrument of the Kingdom. A taste of the truth of the Gospel which speaks of a future hope, a sign pointing beyond itself to Christ and His coming Kingdom, and an instrument of grace to a broken world.–Lesslie Newbigin

Here’s another assessment from Kay Warren. I asking God to help me have better answers to these challenges.
ATTITUDES IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD
1. I am willing to choose carefully the hills I want to “die on.”
2. I value the relationship with another person more than I do being “right.”
3. Sensing what another person needs in [...]

“Dangerous Surrender: What Happens When You Say Yes to God” (Kay Warren)
I’ve just begun to read this book. In the first chapter, Kay addresses the Kingdom of Me. At her book blog, she includes the following ego assessment based on one of her chapters. I just took the assessment–it wasn’t pretty. In the Kingdom of [...]