Spiritual Discipline Resources

For those who have no idea where this is coming from, I’m teaching on spiritual formation this morning, and figured online resources would be a benefit. Those listed in bold and italics are resources I personally use or recommend.
Bible Devotion/Meditation

Prayer Resources

Fasting Resources

This is by far not an extensive list, but it should get you started. And remember, discipline isn’t punishment, it’s formation towards a specific end…namely Christ and His glory.

Pleasing Him Who Counts

We’ve run into a lot of opposition lately in planting Harmony. Nothing huge, just cumulative effects are overwhelming. Over the past couple weeks, you can read about Miranda’s stalker, my blackmailer, and our involvement with the police. What you don’t know is that within the past two days, Donald has been in a major car accident, totalling his new car. Pray for him. He is OK, thank Christ, but having to deal with that again….man. Might as well call him Job. Christians hate us for starting new churches, the Wiccans hate us for being Christian, the agnostics hate us for even talking to them to begin with, and a couple hate me because I have beautiful women at my side. Bottom line here? Please Him Who Counts. Live for Christ. Period. Nothing else matters. So take that…haters. This is getting to be fun…

Harmony Church on Flickr

What is Flickr? Pics online. Plain and simple.

Check out Harmony Church on Flickr here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/harmonychurch/

Be our Flickr buddy. Please. We need friends.

The Sovereignty of God in Vision-Giving

It’s amazing to think that the vision you have is the result of someone else’s prayer being answered. I had a great lunch today with Matthew Lilley, leader of 6:22 Ministries here in Greenville. He said that since he graduated high school, he has been praying for the city of Greenville, and for people to be raised up in Greenville that love the city and want to see it change for the glory of Christ. I wasn’t even a Christian when he graduated high school. That’s an amazing thought, that the vision and existence of Harmony Church is an answer to his (and I’m sure others’) prayers from years ago. And now we are working together to change the city. Makes you wonder at the sovereignty of the God we serve. Thank you Christ for answering prayer and for dictating the times and places of everyone on the face of the planet.

Shane and Shane’s New One

Pages is the new album put out by Shane and Shane. Great stuff, although very soft and downbeat kind of stuff. But awesome.