Posts Tagged ‘God’
28May
Your words will take them there. (Haiti - May 2012)
By Tami Heim
God’s Word not only transforms your life, it transports you back in time. The consequences of sin, brokenness, and repentance unfold by book, chapter, and verse. These themes repeat and God’s faithfulness in every circumstance trumps them all.
You live in a time where digital power allows you to bring others to wherever you are to experience whatever you’re doing. If you frequent any number of social media platforms, you may be living out your life and not even aware of how it is impacting someone else. When the Spirit of the living God’s is alive in you, your influence serves a higher calling and what you share penetrates the stream with life-changing possibilities. Other’s have a chance to see God’s faithfulness at work in you.
Tags: Caribbean, Facebook, God, great commission, Haiti, James, Jeremie Haiti, Long Hollow Baptist Church, Mission trip, Organization, Port-au-Prince, twitter
Posted by Tami Heim. Posted in Christ, Culture, Equip, Uncategorized
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6Apr
When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. – John 19:30, NIV.
Where I am made complete.
In remembrance of Good Friday, here’s an adaptation of The Gospel Way from The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions by Arthur Bennett. (originally posted 4/22/11)
Blessed Lord Jesus,
No human mind could conceive or invent the gospel. Acting in eternal grace You are both its Messenger and its Message.
You lived it out on earth through infinite compassion, applying Your life to insult, injury, and death, that I might be redeemed, ransomed, and freed.
Blessed be You, Father, for contriving this way.
Thanks to You, Lamb of God, for opening this way.
Praise everlasting to You, Holy Spirit.
Tags: Crucification. Sticky Jesus, Friday, God, Good Friday, holy spirit, Jesu, Lord, prayer, sacrifice, salvation, Sayings of Jesus on the cross, Trinity
Posted by Tami Heim. Posted in Christ, Devo, Uncategorized
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26Mar
By Tami Heim
Who is Phillip Randoll?
It’s a question many are asking around the Nashville area. Old school mystery, intrigue, and suspense populate the posts on social media sites. They attract the curious and cause buzz to build.
Investigate all the pieces and you find a story unfolding through twitter and Facebook status updates. A blog, videos, posters, and yard signs are carefully designed to catch your attention. Cryptic messages flow with just enough information to pique your interest in the fortunate death of a man no one claims to know.
As clues surface daily, it becomes clear there’s only one way you’ll discover the Truth and the whole story about this man named Phillip Randoll…
Tags: Baptist, Christ, Easter, Easter Sunday, Facebook, God, Jesus, Phillip Randoll, Religion and Spirituality, Social Media Outreach
Posted by Tami Heim. Posted in Culture, Engage, Equip, Uncategorized
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7Mar
1.7 Billion and Growing
By Tami Heim
Important NOW
Keeping perspective in a world full of high-tech and high-touch shiny gadgets demands enormous energy and capacity. The velocity of change can blur your daily thinking about what’s most important – if you let it.
And what’s most important in all of it? Right now One Spirit-filled voice has everything it needs to reach millions with a single post and click.
Coming Soon
Tags: Acts 1:8, Christ, God, HolySpirit, Judea and Samaria Area, NLT, online evangelism, social media, Wi-Fi
Posted by Tami Heim. Posted in Culture, Engage, Uncategorized
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28Dec
But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells. ~ II Peter 3:13
By Tami Heim
Yes, I’m still savoring Christmas, but I know this calendar year, whether I’m ready or not, is steam rolling into the history books. For some it’ll end like a strong sprint across the finish line or, at the other extreme, it’ll wash over as a muddled mess. Either way, 2011 is ready to wave its final good-bye and that leaves you and me almost standing face to face with 2012.
During this little gap between Christmas and New Year, are you trying to get a grip and orient towards whatever is new, better, and hopeful? How are you building your bridge between the timelines of the old year and the new one coming?
Our Prayer for 2012
We pray you will grow and discover new ways to make your voice heard. We ask God to give you a sense of urgency and an intense willingness to amp up the digital expression of God’s love and life in you. May the body be the body and radiate a magnificent cyber glow, living out boldly this great faith online. The world is desperate to see God’s glory in this time and place. You, beloved Christ followers, are His chosen point of contact. We pray you embrace the assignment and live each day to make Him known in the world.
We Encourage You
Tags: Christ, Christmas, God, HolySpirit, Jesus, Lord, New Earth, New Year
Posted by Tami Heim. Posted in Christ, Equip, Uncategorized
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26Dec
The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told. Luke 2:20, NIV
They remembered. “Glory to God in the highest heaven"
By Tami Heim
By any chance, did you wake up wishing Christmas lingered a little longer this year? I did. I’ve been thinking about the shepherds and the afterglow they experienced seeing the heavenly host of angels and then gazing on the face of the baby Jesus. I image they shared the story of that night often and every time they did it brought them new comfort and joy. I simply refuse to surrender the sacred sweetness of this Christmas season. Will you refuse, too? I’m making some choices today and invite you to join me.
Today I’m going to…
Tags: Angel of the Lord, Christ, Christianity, Christmas, Gloria in Excelsis Deo, God, holiday, Jesus, Luke, New International Version, Opinions, Religion and Spirituality
Posted by Tami Heim. Posted in Christ, Engage, Uncategorized
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14Dec
And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross! Philippians 2:8, NIV
By Tami Heim
Inspired by Alece, at Grit & Glory, 2011 started with a one-word non resolution: Humility. As Christmas approaches and reflections on this past year begin to accumulate, people around the world celebrate the Breath of Heaven coming down to earth. God sends His Son and the world’s first introduction to the long awaited Saviour is a baby sleeping in a manger. Announced by prophets centuries before His birth, He arrives as our only Way, Truth, and Life. Every step, word, and action is marked with humility and testifies to the great love of the Father. That one word, humility, reflects His whole life.
In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
– Philippians 2:5-7, NIV
Tags: Christ, Christ Jesus, christian, Christmas, Epistle to the Colossians, Epistle to the Philippians, God, God the Father, Humility, Jesus, New International Version
Posted by Tami Heim. Posted in Christ, Devo, Uncategorized
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12Dec
What will you point, click, and scatter?
By Tami Heim
There’s a design feature in the masterpiece of creation that gives a planted seed the possibility to grow strong and bear fruit. In the same way the words you post in your network conversations are digital seeds. You point, click, and scatter them daily on a cyber mission field. Each one of them has the potential to travel a trillion megabytes, land somewhere unexpected, take root, grow strong, and bear fruit.
Tags: compassion, Epistle to the Galatians, Fruit, Fruit of the Holy Spirit, God, holy spirit, HolySpirit, Jesus, Religion and Spirituality, Sowing, Spiritual gift, Word
Posted by Tami Heim. Posted in Christ, Devo, Equip, Uncategorized
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30Nov
Luke 7:37-39
By Tami Heim
Jesus commands His followers to love God and love people. Every connection He makes serves to emphasize this point. By invitation, He forgives, redeems, and introduces His Kingdom in real-time.
When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, he went to the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table.
~ Luke 7:36, NIV
Jesus loves and leverages the power of story. With them, He resets cultural boundaries, rocks the status quo, and accentuates a love beyond the law that few comprehend. Stories with unprecedented compassion and forgiveness relocate hearts to foreign and uncomfortable places. His holy agenda permeates what He says and all He does.
Tags: christian, Christianity, God, holy spirit, Jesus, Luke, New International Version, online ministry, Pharisee, sharing faith online, technology and faith
Posted by Tami Heim. Posted in Christ, Culture, Engage, Uncategorized
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28Nov
I call you, friend.
No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. – John 15:15, NKJV
By Tami Heim
Jesus called His followers friends long before it was culturally cool for you to call your online followers the same. If you look to and learn from the Author and Finisher of your faith you’ll experience the breadth and depth of what it means to be called a friend. There is no better day than this one to fall in love again with the Giver of so great a gift.
Tags: Christ, Christ Jesus, Epistle to the Ephesians, friends, God, holy spirit, Jesus, John 3:16, online ministry, online relationships, Second Epistle to Timothy
Posted by Tami Heim. Posted in Christ, Culture, Uncategorized
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