by Jessie Cruickshank | Jan 14, 2019 | Spiritual
Lately I have been asking people who are pastors and church planters – “Why do we gather? As a body and a people, why do we get together?” I get various answers, from building relationship and encouraging one another, to conversations about the corporate witness that...
by Jessie Cruickshank | Sep 27, 2018 | Leadership, Spiritual
The leadership development of Millennials is often more a discussion of struggle and disappointment than how-to techniques. I believe that this is due to a foundational miscommunication between Boomers/GenXers and Millennial regarding what it means to be a leader. ...
by Jessie Cruickshank | Aug 5, 2018 | Spiritual
There is common saying in Christianity where we are exhorted to have “Faith like a child”. This is held up as an ideal, stemming from Jesus’s admonition to the disciples in Luke 18:16 “Unless you have faith like one of these, you will never see the...
by Jessie Cruickshank | Jun 17, 2018 | Spiritual
The foundational and constitutional text for the church’s five-fold ministry is Ephesians 4:11-13. When considering the text of these verses, we often readily acknowledge and agree with the stated goal of ‘unity in our faith’ and ‘maturity in Christ.’ But...
by Jessie Cruickshank | Jun 17, 2018 | Spiritual
While the times in which we live may be unprecedented, the attitudes in the human heart are not. Jesus, upon ascending into heaven, left the work of discipling all nations in the hands of fallible, but hopeful, spirit-led human beings. Jesus left the reputation of...
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