Archive for August, 2014
Posted on August 28th, 2014 by Tim McCoy
How long has it been since you have checked out Ingleside on a Wednesday night? Hundreds of people typically gather at Ingleside in the middle of the week for food, fellowship, study, training, and service. The gatherings are typically segmented by age, life stage, or ministry focus.
For example, just a couple of Wednesday nights ago (August 20), 275 folks joined in the fellowship meal. Then, 73 adults gathered in the Chapel for praise, prayer, a missions focus, and our verse-by-verse...
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Posted on August 21st, 2014 by Tim McCoy
Not many of us get pumped up about processes, policies, and procedures. Yet, most of us do care deeply about outcomes and results. The truth is that the two are usually connected—even in the life of a church!
Listen to the wisdom of the writer of the biblical book of Ecclesiastes:
“The wise heart will know the proper time and procedure.
For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter.”
(Ecclesiastes 8:5b-6a, NIV)
Eugene Peterson captures the spirit of this passage in...
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Posted on August 14th, 2014 by Tim McCoy
Have you noticed the different tempos and rhythms of life? The music of our lives seems to shift with the seasons. Sometimes the change is abrupt and unexpected. However, often it is predictable and anticipated.
For many families, the month of August is a month when the beat changes. The slow and easy songs of summer give way to the more structured cadences and complex melodies of the school year.
Even as the seasons change, there is an underlying theme that God intends to weave...
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Posted on August 6th, 2014 by Tim McCoy
Do you remember how old you were when you first learned to tell time? In our culture, this basic life skill is often developed in the early elementary school years.
Truth be told, however, to really know “what time it is” requires wisdom, insight, and discernment at a much deeper level than simply knowing the relationship between the big hand and the little hand on the clock.
The Bible points us in this direction of a deeper understanding of times and seasons when it says of the men...
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