[If you're reading along with the "How God Guides" paper, this is, not counting the Introduction, the 3rd chapter...] Don’t be like the horse or mule, which have no understanding... Psalm 32:9 Be very careful, then, how you live - not as unwise, but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are …
The Bible is your first stop…
The statues of the Lord... are my counselors… a lamp to my feet and light to my path.” Psalm 119:24,105 Lamps don’t ordinarily light up whole city blocks; they’re more like a flashlight that helps you see your next step or two. God’s guidance doesn’t usually shine very far ahead, just far enough to keep …
Celebrating the birth of a church…
This is part of my journal entry for today... June 13, 2012 31 years ago today was the first “service” of Lighthouse Christian Fellowship of Santa Cruz in our house on Brommer Street! While I do my best not to wallow in nostalgia over this, especially now that LCF Santa Cruz is no more, I …
The “God Positioning System”
Allow me to be a bit silly and compare God’s way of guiding us (the “God Positioning System”) with the Global Positioning System device in your car or on your smart phone. (My friend calls hers “Garmin” after the brand name on the front of her GPS, so I’ll use that name from now on …
Some more introductory thoughts on how God guides…
Way too many choices… Some people seem sort of panicky about making decisions and choosing between options, and a lot of these people are followers of Jesus. I think this panic is spawned and exacerbated by the glut of options in our modern culture (in our Western middle-class reality anyway). Previous generations didn’t struggle as …
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