What we allow to fill our lives is what we dispense to others. What’s in your cistern? Purified drinking water can be expensive. Instead of buying bottles or filters, you could purchase a rain barrel and capture the water that flows off your roof and through your guttering. Then you would would have a largeContinue reading “What’s In Your Cistern? Finale”
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What’s In Your Cistern? Day 5
The New Year is a time for reflection and hope. This past year, we have allowed many influences to fill our lives. We dispense to others that which we have allowed to fill us. This reality reminds me of ancient wells in Southern Israel called cisterns. What we take in to our cistern, that isContinue reading “What’s In Your Cistern? Day 5”
What’s In Your Cistern? Day 4
What we allow into our lives is what we dispense to others. What’s in your cistern? Thirst is powerful. It is a warning of something physical, but the desire to consume water permeates into the emotional and mental realms of a person. In a hot and dry place, panic and hopelessness can overwhelm one whoContinue reading “What’s In Your Cistern? Day 4”
What’s in Your Cistern? Day 3
What we allow into our lives is what we dispense to others. What’s in your cistern? Water is essential to your health. It can be quite boring, so I like to spice mine up with some lemon or maybe some ground up coffee beans. But the most important part is that your water is clean,Continue reading “What’s in Your Cistern? Day 3”
What’s In Your Cistern? Day 2
What we allow to fill our lives is what we dispense to others. What’s in your cistern? In ancient Israel, many towns, villages, and cities relied on rain as their primary source for water. They would build a place to store the rainwater at the lowest point of the area. This storage point was aContinue reading “What’s In Your Cistern? Day 2”
Leadership Lessons from Israel: Meditate
Most of us live life at 900 miles per hour. There is very little margin in our lives to slow down and process. The demands of work, family, and cultural pressure are intense. Therefore, the word meditate can sound foreign, at best, if not wasteful. Who has time to meditate? Maybe someone with an EasternContinue reading “Leadership Lessons from Israel: Meditate”
Leadership Lessons from Israel: Yada
Who do you know? Our lives are shaped by relationships. When we allow others to know us and spend time getting to know others, our life’s direction and worldview is being molded. As leaders, it is critical for us to know those whom we have the opportunity to lead. What does it mean “to know?” LetContinue reading “Leadership Lessons from Israel: Yada”
Leadership Lessons from Israel: Shalom
Leaders bring peace into chaos. Leaders fight for reconciliation in broken relationships. They work diligently to build unified teams that pursue a clear vision. Leaders offer plans that best utilize the resources available to fulfill the mission. A disciple-making ministry that is lacking in peace will fail to glorify God or follow His purposes. OnContinue reading “Leadership Lessons from Israel: Shalom”
Leadership Lessons from Israel: The Experience
“The pages of your Bible are black and white until you visit the land of Israel. From that point on, you will read it in full color.” This was the description given to me by my Pastor and by several friends. I spent the majority of my days of May 2015 in Israel, hiking overContinue reading “Leadership Lessons from Israel: The Experience”
The End of a Chapter; The Beginning of Another
Life is often defined by chapters. Today is the last page of a chapter of our family’s journey with Christ. Today was my last Sunday morning as one of the pastors of a great fellowship of Christians, Blaise Baptist Church. The investment into our family spans two decades. Tonight I will preach one last sermonContinue reading “The End of a Chapter; The Beginning of Another”
Shepherding Well 