Category: Daily Thought
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Eyes Forward – Ministry Lusting Day 4
By Stephen Boster As a youth in Augusta, Georgia, a summer staple involved a trip to a Georgian or South Carolinian beach. Imagine pubescence at its finest as young man. As we parked the bus and began walking over the sand hill to the beach and open waves, I distinctly remember the youth pastor saying,…
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Ministry Lust Day 3 … Context Is King
By Stephen Boster – Last spring, I had the opportunity to teach New Testament at Park University in Parkville, MO, a great school with great folks. As I taught, a used a certain phrase in every class period – Context is King, stressing the importance of reading the scriptures and understanding them in their context. …
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Ministry Pornography???
In the previous blog entry, I made mention of the danger of Ministry Pornography, defined as lusting after other ministries and taking my eyes of the context of where God has me serving. For the past eight years, I have been serving at Pleasant Valley Baptist Church in the Kansas City, MO area. I first…
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Ministry Lusting – Day 1 Into the Field
For the next few days, we’ll be posting articles from a friend of ours, Stephen Boster, KCI Campus Pastor for Pleasant Valley Baptist Church in Kansas City, MO. Stephen released a post a few months ago that got me thinking, do we as pastors fall victim to ‘lusting’ after other ministries? Take a few minutes…
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The Brick – Is God Getting Your Attention
Got this in an email today and it was too good to pass up. THE BRICK A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar.. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something.…