Still Speaking Words of Wisdom

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History teaches us that wisdom is a wealth acquired in the context of “we” rather than the confines of “me.” The wise become so as they learn, figuratively speaking, at the knee of their predecessors and their predecessors before them. With a reverence for the wise comes wisdom.

[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”grey”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of Harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.” Martin Luther King Jr.

The time is always right to do what is right. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live. Martin Luther King Jr.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image border_color=”grey” img_link_target=”_self” title=”Courageous Leadership” image=”3981″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” img_link_large=”” link=”https://journeypastoralcoaching.com/courage-in-leadership-2″][vc_separator color=”mulled_wine” align=”align_center” border_width=”3″]

[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image border_color=”grey” img_link_target=”_self” title=”Thinking Christianly – Os Guinness” image=”4008″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” img_link_large=”” link=”https://journeypastoralcoaching.com/?page_id=5304&preview=true”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]One of the great minds of our times, Os Guinness, weighs in on the neglected, but critical, area of “Thinking Christianly.”

(T)he term “thinking Christianly” has two parts that require serious attention. Thus we must first ask what we mean by “thinking.” For as Dorothy L. Sayers laments in her celebrated essay, The Lost Tools of Learning.

Is not the great defect of our education today … that although we often succeed in teaching our pupils ‘subjects,’ we fail lamentably on the whole in teaching them how to think: they learn everything, except the art of learning.

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[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]“I’m never better than when I’m on the full stretch for God.” George Whitfield.

Os Guinness calls us to stretch ourselves to our limits not only that we grow, but that we know the Gospel fully.

Check out this encouraging teaching video on YOUR calling.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_video title=”Os Guinness – The Call” link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leANctxTQKo”][vc_separator color=”mulled_wine” align=”align_center” border_width=”3″]

[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image border_color=”grey” img_link_target=”_self” title=”Life Call and Purpose, Part I – Os Guinness” image=”4007″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” img_link_large=”” link=”https://journeypastoralcoaching.com/?page_id=5315&preview=true”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]In “The Call,” Os Guinness writes “the truth that God calls us to himself so decisively that everything we are, everything we do, and everything we have is invested with a special devotion and dynamism lived out as a response to his summons and service.”

He continues, “We all want to fulfill a purpose bigger than ourselves. Only such a larger purpose can inspire us to heights we know we could never reach on our own. The real purpose is personal and passionate: to know what we are here to do and why. Kierkegaard wrote: The thing is to understand myself, to see what God wants me to do; the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die.”

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[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image border_color=”grey” img_link_target=”_self” img_size=”large” alignment=”center” img_link_large=”” title=”Character, Devotion, Discipleship, Wisdom” image=”3988″ link=”https://journeypastoralcoaching.com/speaking-words-of-wisdom-9-18-15/character-devotion-discipleship-wisdom”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Desire & Discipline.  Desire & Distraction.

As Jonathan Edwards observed a long time ago, we act on our strongest motive.

If our strongest motive, our deepest desire, is to know God, it will generate the discipline that we need to pursue this, because we will want to know God more than anything else. If this is not our strongest motive, we will find ourselves with multiple, alternative, and competing foci. These will inevitably distract us.”

― David F. Wells, God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-love of God Reorients Our World[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”mulled_wine” align=”align_center” border_width=”3″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]“We all want to fulfill a purpose bigger than ourselves. Only such a larger purpose can inspire us to heights we know we could never reach on our own. The real purpose is personal and passionate: to know what we are here to do and why. Kierkegaard wrote: The thing is to understand myself, to see what God wants me to do; the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die.”

Call & Purpose Part II . . .

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[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image border_color=”grey” img_link_target=”_self” img_size=”large” alignment=”center” img_link_large=”” title=”Dare to Dream” image=”3978″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Dare to Dream Impossible Dreams.  Dare to Do Your Impossible Dreams.

 

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find it was vanity.

But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.

T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”mulled_wine” align=”align_center” border_width=”3″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]The cross is laid on every Christian. The first Christ-suffering which every man must experience is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.

We surrender ourselves to Christ in union with His death—we give over our lives to death.

When Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die. …death in Jesus Christ, the death of the old man [or nature] at his call. Jesus’ summons to the rich young man was calling him to die, because only the man who is dead to his own will can follow Christ. In fact, every command of Jesus is a call to die, with all our affections and lusts. But we do not want to die.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image border_color=”grey” img_link_target=”_self” img_size=”large” alignment=”center” img_link_large=”” title=”The Call of Grace. The Grace of Call” image=”4001″][vc_separator color=”mulled_wine” align=”align_center” border_width=”3″]

[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image border_color=”grey” img_link_target=”_self” title=”CBC! There’s No Place Like Home” image=”3934″ img_size=”large” img_link_large=”” link=”https://journeypastoralcoaching.com/speaking-words-of-wisdom-9-18-15/cbc-theres-no-place-like-home “][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2”][vc_column_text]Central Bible College was established in 1922 for the training of ministers and missionaries as the training focus of the humble birth-prayer of the Assemblies of God: to be the most effective world evangelization movement in history. CBC was at the forefront of that movement, sending out more pastors, evangelists, missionaries, teachers, district leaders and church workers during its lifetime than any other school in the AG.

Continue Reading[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Things are not always what they appear.

What can we find inside the mind and thinking of those who think outside the box of the ordinary?

Enjoy this creative look.

Inside and outside of the box.[/vc_column_text]

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