At the top of my website there is a link to a page that explains what coaching is all about, but words can’t do coaching justice. I have found a great video to explain in a mystical, right brain kind of way what coaching is like. So humor me….any thoughts??
2 Common themes explored in coaching are: values and saboteurs.
This video starts with a great example of saboteur(s). It is that little voice or voices that whisper bitter sweet nothings into our hearts: “you are not enough.” “you are a failure.” etc. Recognizing these saboteurs exist is the beginning to reaching the abundant life.
This video goes on to focus on finding your game aka what are your unique values aka what is your song to the world.
My friend in the Middle East has transformed his outreach to non-Christians by adopting the Acts/early church model of outreach: He prays for people and they are healed. The New Testament is FILLED with miracles, exorcisms, and other bizarre supernatural events that challenge our western, modern, scientific minds. Here is a video clip of a miracle. Is this real? What do you think? More to follow…
Enjoy this brief video of our continued efforts to raise money for the poor and needy in Africa. Our goal this Christmas is to raise enough money to provide a village in Africa with a well for fresh drinking water. JOIN US!
Pathways Church this Christmas season is taking part in an advent conspiracy! Join us in the adventure by giving (you can donate by clicking on link below and giving via credit card to the cause) to provide for a well of fresh, drinking water for a village in Africa. LOVE & LIVE with us as we help the world to drink living water.
There has been much controversy over the concept of the Trinity. It has been tried to be explained in many ways using many analogies that ALL fall short. It has been said that philosophically God is ‘one what’ and ‘three whos’.
It is clear that throughout Scripture God is 3 and 1 at the same time held in a paradoxical tension never to be fully understood this side of heaven.
Much of the recent controversy has been from the depiction of the Trinity by Paul Young in his book The Shack despite the fact that Paul Young has made it very clear that it is a work of fiction and an allegory. In The Shack, Paul Young describes the Trinity as: “I am one God and I am three persons, and each of the three is fully and entirely the one.” God or ‘Papa’ in the story goes on to say: “Love and relationship. All love and relationship is possible for you only because it already exists within Me, within God myself. Love is not the limitation; love is the flying. I am love.”
Here is a pictorial representation of the Trinity:
I don’t think we will every fully grasp nor understand the Trinity this side of heaven. I love what A.W. Tozer has said: “The doctrine of the Trinity…is truth for the heart. The fact that it cannot be satisfactorily explained, instead of being against it, is in its favor. Such a truth had to be revealed; no one could imagine it.” This quote from a GREAT book explaining basic tenets of Christianity: Without a Doubt by Samples
I have added this brief video clip of my 2 cents from a scientific and theoretical perspective to help us get our mind around the concept. (see also Beyond the Cosmos by Hugh Ross) As always please leave your comments!