Love Fulfilled Ministry

“ Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it. For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay " ( Habakkuk 2:2-3 ). Some think that leadership in ministry is more difficult than in business. Their reasoning is that with employees a paycheck can be used as leverage, thus "volunteers" are more difficult to manage than employees. When I hear this the idiom carrot and stick comes to mind, it is characterized by the use of both reward and punishment to induce cooperation, driving a mule on by either holding out a carrot or whipping it with a stick. The focus is on getting the mule to cooperate. Collaboration includes cooperation and it is based on the establishment of a relationship involving trust, respect, and commitment.[ 1 ] Collaboration mimics the biblical idea of body, where each member has a gift, a function, an...

“ See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven" ( Matthew 18:10 ). Little children have angels who are always coming before God for them. Woe, to those who produce snares for these little ones, v.7. It would be better if a millstone were tied around their neck and they were thrown into the sea, if your hand or eye cause one of these little ones to stumble, it is better to remove it, v.6-9, take heed not to despise one of these,v.10.  Despise means to regard as unworthy of one's notice or consideration; to look down on with contempt or aversion; it may suggest an emotional response; a condemnation as low, vile, or feeble .[ 1 ]   The son of man came to save these that are despised, v.11.  God holds these near, especially the fatherless and widow. " Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation " ( Psalm 68:5 ). God is a  righteous ...

There are a  diversity of gifts, yet the same spirit, and there are a diversity of services, yet the same Lord,  and there are diversity of operations, yet it is the same God which operates all in all. Yet to each is given a manifestation of the spirit toward being expedient   ( 1 Corinthians 12:6-7 ).  Operating procedures are established detailed written instructions, for designated principles and processes, that are followed routinely to produce a desired result. The thought process behind a standard operating procedure is that consistent results will occur as people follow the processes. The International Quality Standard  ISO 9001  essentially requires the determination of processes (documented as standard operating procedures) used in any manufacturing process that could affect the quality of a product. Quality Management teams in organizations have been writing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for years to help workers produce qual...

God sent His Son They called Him Jesus He came to love, heal, and forgive He lived and died to buy my pardon An empty grave is there to prove my Savior lives Because He lives I can face tomorrow Because He lives all fear is gone Because I know He holds the future And life is worth the living just because He lives And then one day I'll cross that river I'll fight life's final war with pain And then as death gives way to victory I'll see the lights of glory and I'll know he lives Because He lives I can face tomorrow Because He lives all fear is gone Because I know He holds the future And life is worth the living just because He lives  This is the Gospel, the Good News! He dwelt among us, died for us, and rose again, living for us. Because He Lives forever, He has the official sanctioning or authority of the priesthood whereby He is saving completely those coming through Him to God, and He is living always pleading for the sake of them ( Hebrews ...

" But brother with brother is being judged and this on unbelievers, indeed already you fail, in the judgments you are having among yourselves, because of what? so that you would not be injured, cheated or deprived? But you are injuring and cheating these brethren, are you not aware that unjust ones, the kingdom of God shall not be enjoying. No you are being deceived. Neither  parmours (having an improper lover, fornicating), idolaters (loving other gods or blindly or excessively loving), adulterers (faithless toward God or loving another man's wife), catamites (ancient Greek tradition of men having boy lovers, loving a boy), arsenokoítēs (literally a man in bed with another, having a man lover), thieves (loving to steal, loving things of another to the point of taking it), greedy ones (loving things over God, having more than one needs or deserves), drunkards (loving to drink, excessively being drunk), revilers (loving to speak abusively of), extortioners (loving to obtain ...

When in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.[ Declaration of Independence ] The internationally recognized Ukrainian People's Republic emerged from war in 1919, only to be engaged in the Ukrainian–Soviet War which followed. The Soviet conquerors created a socialist republic, which in 1922 became one of the republics of the Soviet Union. Initial Soviet policy in Ukrainian was lenient but in the 1930's the policies turned to socialist assimilation. Millions of Ukrainians died of starvation in a politically induced famine called the Holodomor , or Extermination by Hunger. This great famine was a hidden history in this fe...