[highcallingblogs.com] the moment of impact

Note: This is an excerpt of the featured Faith post (written by yours truly!) at HighCallingBlogs.com.

I met this guy (we’ll call him Joshua) on the street in a popular downtown area one night while he was waiting for a taxi. The first question that I asked him was, “How many brand names of beers can you name?” First there were the easy ones… Budweiser, Miller, Coors, Heineken. Then it got a little tougher, but he was able to pull out some names of a few others… Red Stripe, Samuel Adams, Rolling Rock. In the end, he was able to rattle off about 16 brand names before he decided to stop. He had a great sense of pride after being able to pull off such an impressive list.

Then he was ready for my second question.

My heart started racing, because somehow I knew that this question was going to make him think in a way that I wasn’t sure that he was expecting. In fact I almost didn’t want to ask it, but I mustered up the strength to force the words out of my mouth…

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[12 days of awesomeness] day six: real live preacher

The next featured blog in this series is one that I honestly had not paid enough attention to for a long time. I’m not even sure why… but I believe that this is one blog that we should all be paying more attention to…

Real Live Preacher is written by Gordon Atkinson, pastor of Covenant Baptist Church in San Antonio. He is also a long-time, regular contributor over at HighCallingBlogs.com. In fact, he’s one of the guys that helped kick it off and give it some real legitimacy!

Gordon’s stuff has an authenticity that I rarely see in Christian blogging. I don’t think that you ever really have to question where he stands, because of how transparent he makes himself. After reading a handful of posts on his blog, you will feel like you’ve been life-long friends with the dude…

He also knows his stuff. He really is a ‘real live preacher’! I have quickly come to trust what he has to say about God and faith, and that is another quality that I think is important in Christian blogging (that is trust).

The bulk of my real interaction with him has been through the HighCallingBlogs.com network, and even though we live and work ‘worlds’ away I can still feel his ‘presence’ as a shepherd. Gordon is a pastor that I’m sure that you would quickly welcome into your life, so I encourage you to check out his blog and start getting to know this awesome man of God…

 

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[highcallingblogs.com] even if he doesn’t…

Note: This is an excerpt of the featured Faith post (written by yours truly!) at HighCallingBlogs.com.

Kelly said, “I don’t doubt that He *can* do something about anything, but to be honest, that thought no longer moves me to prayer. The question for me has become, ‘*Will* He do something about what matters to me?’”

Kelly shared this thought in a comment in my last post, She Stepped Forward. It is a question that I am ALL too familiar with, and I think that many of us may struggle with (or have struggled with at one time). There was a time on in my life when I asked this tough question, even to the point of questioning God’s very existence.

After stuggling through fertility treatments for over a year, my wife and I were finally blessed with a wonderful son. I think that having to try so hard for so long made us extremely grateful to have him on our lives. Then something happened that completely turned our world upside-down…

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[highcallingblogs.com] she stepped forward

Note: This is an excerpt of the featured Faith post (written by yours truly!) at HighCallingBlogs.com.

It was a typical Sunday morning. Good worship. Good message. Good time to finish up so that I could get some lunch. (Be careful not to throw stones, because you know exactly what I’m talking about!) Then it happened…

At the end of his message, our pastor typically offers an opportunity for people to come forward for prayer. Sometimes it’s an altar call that’s related in some way to his message. Other times he calls people up for other special prayer needs as the Holy Spirit leads him. I see it every week, so I’m not even sure why I was surprised this time…

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