Mindful Leader
Episodes
Monday Oct 01, 2018
Ministry Moment -- A Culture of Growth
Monday Oct 01, 2018
Monday Oct 01, 2018
Ministry Moment to set the stage for our Fall Stewardship Campaign.
Sunday Sep 23, 2018
Season of Pentecost - James -- Are you "All In"? Why Not?
Sunday Sep 23, 2018
Sunday Sep 23, 2018
Pentecost 17: 18.09.23
James 3:13 - 4:8a
Pastor Dennis “Big Idea”:
I decided to take to the area of which wolf will you feed? Which wisdom will you honor? Played with the idea of what it means to be "all in". Sometimes it means you are exhausted or tired. But other times, it means, I am totally with this. I am "all" in. No guilt. No shame. But at the same time, where are you?
Revealed this service my financial contribution to the church. Not for guilt, or shame, but to show Marilyn and I are all in.
Sunday Four of Five Straight RCL Sundays on James
3:13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Show by your good life that your works are done with gentleness born of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be boastful and false to the truth. 15 Such wisdom does not come down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, devilish. 16 For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disorder and wickedness of every kind. 17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy. 18 And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace for those who make peace.
4:1 Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you? 2 You want something and do not have it; so you commit murder. And you covet something and cannot obtain it; so you engage in disputes and conflicts. You do not have, because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, in order to spend what you get on your pleasures….
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8a Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.
Wednesday Sep 19, 2018
Season of Pentecost -- James -- Our Words
Wednesday Sep 19, 2018
Wednesday Sep 19, 2018
Pentecost 16: 18.09.16
Sunday Three of Five Straight RCL Sundays on James
As I indicate in the reflection, the passage was selected in April or May and then the week consumed me with how words had been misused. It just seemed appropriate to take the events of the week and move them into the reflection. My purpose was not to be mean, but to educate and learn. Please try and listen w/o attaching names to the people. An adventure in missing the point.
James 3:1-12
1 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. 2 For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is perfect, able to keep the whole body in check with a bridle. 3 If we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we guide their whole bodies. 4 Or look at ships: though they are so large that it takes strong winds to drive them, yet they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. 5 So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great exploits. How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell. 7 For every species of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by the human species, 8 but no one can tame the tongue—a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse those who are made in the likeness of God. 10 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this ought not to be so. 11 Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and brackish water? 12 Can a fig tree, my brothers and sisters, yield olives, or a grapevine figs? No more can salt water yield fresh.