For #10, click here.

For #9-7, click here.

For #6-4, click here.

3. This is my ministry…but where is my paycheck? (Danny Ortega)

“I know a lot of people that get paid to be in the ministry…..I really don’t have any issue with that. I think what bugs me is this arbitrary “ministry for cash” program that I see more and more. I have people in my life that “are called to minister” in this way way or that way. However, when a better opportunity….er…I mean….a “new calling” happens (with cash $$$$$ attached) all of a sudden their focus changes, all of a sudden the ministry with the perks seems to be the one God calls them to. I’m seeing it more and more lately.
Why does God’s calling become so clear when there is a paycheck attached?”

2. Dallas Willard and The Gospel of Sin Management

“The current situation in which faith professed has little impact on the whole of life, is not unique to our times, nor is it a recent development. But is currently at an acute stage. History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essentially concerned only with how to deal with sin: with wrongdoing or wrong-being and its effects. Life, our actual existence, is not included in what is now presented as the heart of the Christian message, or it is included only marginally.”

1. A Car Accident and My Life’s Purpose

“I turned on to Central to complete my 4 minute drive home. I looked down to put my phone in the pocket of my shorts and I slammed into a Toyota Tundra without the slightest amount of braking. 40ish mph in my Nissan Altima. I must have hit the truck just right because it flipped on its side. I never stiffened up and I felt the impact before my brain registered seeing anything. When the airbag dust had settled and the two vehicles came to a stop, I checked to make sure everything that is Scott was still intact. Still had both legs, arms, hands and I wasnt bleeding from my head. My left hand had gone into the windshield (evidently I don’t punch as well as Oscar De La Hoya).”