Mark Driscoll in his book Confessions of a Reformission Rev. talks about the moment he stopped wasting time on people who were never going to be on board with the vision God laid on his heart and started investing in people who were interested in being missionaries to the city of Seattle. It was thenContinue reading “Experiences in Planting, Part 2: Creating a Core”
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The Religious Skeptic
“Hi Tomy. There are some missionaries here on island and I invited them to speak to the students this week. I hope that’s okay,” one of the faculty advisors for our high school group said to me. Because the Caribbean has taught me a lot about flexibility, I didn’t consider it an issue. Instead IContinue reading “The Religious Skeptic”
Spiritual Weaknesses: Recognizing the Limitations Within our Gifts
I’m fascinated by personality. In fact, sometimes I think I went to school for the wrong thing because often when people are telling me about their lives, I’m silently psychoanalyzing them. This interest only intensified when I began the journey of discovering my spiritual gifts. But if there’s one thing I’ve found these past coupleContinue reading “Spiritual Weaknesses: Recognizing the Limitations Within our Gifts”
Technological Zombies
It’d been eight years since the zombie apocalypse ravaged the city, a host of them residing in an airport eating the flesh and brains of humans. A girl and her friends are wandering around when the zombie finds himself attracted the woman. He eats the boyfriend (minor detail) and something strange happens. His attraction growsContinue reading “Technological Zombies”
School of Hard Knocks: Experiences in Planting
Like those people who wake up hung-over from the night before vowing to never drink again only to find themselves at a bar later that day, every time I look forward to being part of a pre-existing movement, my heart flutters at the thought of another unreached place. This past week my wife and IContinue reading “School of Hard Knocks: Experiences in Planting”
And Sometimes God Says “No”
It started with a good quiet time and a handful of ideas I thought could change Cayman. All right, that’s a bit of an exaggeration but that’s how I was feeling. Glowing like Moses post-Sinai, I rejoined the Israelites to watch each idea get shot down by reality, the final straw being a unique ministryContinue reading “And Sometimes God Says “No””
Sharing What’s Sacred: Dreams We’re Tempted to Keep
It was early Friday morning and I was late to breakfast with a ministry partner I hadn’t seen in a while. After exchanging formalities and catching each other up on our lives, he shared with me something he “hadn’t told anyone about yet”: he started a new business. All he said was it involved investingContinue reading “Sharing What’s Sacred: Dreams We’re Tempted to Keep”
Tomy Wilkerson 