Posts from 2022 (Page 4)
Discovering Your Purpose in Hindsight
I have been doing evaluations of my call from God for many years now, often asking the question, “God, what was the purpose in that particular ministry?” I will be the first to tell you that I probably spent 20 of my 40-plus years of service to God trying to figure out if I needed to do something else. But He continually brought me back to church as I felt Him saying, “You may be done with organized religion and…
MISSION DIGNITY
Our own Rachel Hamrick has taken a special interest in Mission Dignity, a ministry that provides financial support to retirement-aged Southern Baptist ministers and surviving spouses who are experiencing financial difficulties due to economic hardships like medical bills and other unexpected expenditures. Many of these individuals served smaller churches that lacked the resources to fully cover retirement benefits for these pastors and spouses and families who ventured out in faith to serve these smaller congregations. Mission Dignity is an avenue…
Generosity
I believe it was William Barclay in his study of Jesus’s Sermon On The Mount who offered some tremendous insights concerning the importance of giving and generosity as it pertains to time, talent, service, material, and monetary possessions. He moves from preaching to meddling as he dares to venture into the realm of motivation. He talks about the objectives of some of us at times when we practice this much-needed and appreciated attribute today …. generosity. Why do we give…