Author: ourCOG

The Way to Purity

One of the things i do each day is read from Oswald Chambers' devotional, My Utmost for His Highest. This was the devotion today. It spoke profoundly to me, so i thought i would share it with you, as well.262011Those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart . . . . For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. Th... »

why are young ministers leaving the #ourCOG ? We are a group of "ill prospects" ( #LikeAMightyArmy , 13)

why are young ministers leaving the #ourCOG ? We are a group of "ill prospects" ( #LikeAMightyArmy , 13) »

5 subtle misconceptions of leaders

Here is an incomplete list of “little foxes that can spoil the (leadership) vine”. I can do my own thing. A leader’s “thing” is not her own. Her thing is her followers’ thing. Followers are why leaders exist. Apart from them, a leader has nothing. Any leader that forgets this is history, and a forgotten [...] »

Guest blog: Backroom Theology by Jonathan Simmons

Guest blog: Backroom Theology by Jonathan Simmons

I remember the first time I made a living wage from vocational ministry.  It was actually an internship in Knoxville, TN.  Ironically, most internships do not normally pay for all the blood, sweat and tears required for the role but this one did.  Regardless, it was all I had time for and I wasn’t earning [...] »