In this article, Jasmine Tate shares how being fully present is the doorway to seeing God's Kingdom invade earth!
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Brad McKoy
Donna Bishop was one of the first agents of change that I ever had a chance to know. We met when I was a junior in high school. She was a transfer student I had never seen before, but it didn’t take long to realize that she was different. I’d often run into this beautiful young woman alone somewhere on campus, just praying and worshipping Jesus. We shared a couple classes and became friends, but she never ceased to amaze me with how serious she was about following Jesus.
I shook my head as I wondered what I was about to learn. “A running homily is when you start with any scripture and spend the rest of your time pointing to Jesus.” As he talked about the importance of keeping the person of Jesus central in our preaching, I recognized that it was even more important to keep Jesus at the center of my life. All of my busy rushing around, trying to get qualified to do something great for God was actually leading me away from following after Jesus.
Brian Orme, host of the Borme Identity podcast, interviews Culture of the Few author, Brad McKoy, about the power of discipleship and the living out life with an awareness of how the micro impacts the macro.
Brad McKoy took some time to talk to his good friend, Brian Orme, about his journey to learning the value of making disciples and living out the gospel in the micro. Their conversation covered the process of learning that discipleship is more than discussing a Christian book over coffee together. Pointing to the life of Jesus as our model for what it looks like to make disciples, Brad talks about the power of following Jesus in everyday ways and inviting others into that process.
http://podcast.iborme.com/interview-with-brad-mckoy/
I don’t know where William Penn was when he first began to pray in the late 1600’s for “room for such a holy experiment.” Maybe he was in his father’s home in County Cork, or maybe it was when he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. It doesn’t really matter where he was, but today, I sit in the answer to that prayer. I pray that God would give us the courage and conviction to pray prayers that future generations can live in.
