Culture of Honor

A new friend gave me this book to read. A Culture of Honor by Danny Silk. Silk is a pastor at Bethel Church in Redding, California. He writes about what makes up a healthy church, whether it's through their counseling program, leadership diversity, relationships amongst the congregation, and general life programs. I have gleaned lots of information from the book, and would love for the leaders in my church to read and discuss it. Would applying the counseling principles recommended by Silk help us in some of our struggles to help those hurting around us? Would our specific church grow stronger as a body? and thus have more of a ministry in our larger community? According to Silk, all of these things would happen.

"Honor creates life-giving and life-promoting relationships."

"A culture of honor is created as a community of people learn to discern and receive people in their God-given identities."

"Life flows through honor."

I finished this book and was definitely challenged to try to put into practice what I had read.

Bursting Forth!

It's nearly spring. The time when the little green shoots burst out of the ground! and that's how I'm feeling today. I feel ready to burst when I think of the love my Lord has for me. For what my God has done for me! Every little detail of my life. He has taken care of each one. He has protected me and my family, preparing us for each step that we take. We have NO idea of His plans for us. So we walk in faith.

and the level of my thankfulness is more than I can contain. So I feel like bursting out just like those green shoots. My actions would please my charismatic friends and probably shock my stoic ones. I feel as though I could dance like David danced when bringing the ark back to Jerusalem. and bring criticism like Michal's.

Things seem to get muddled, and I scream for control. And once again, He laughs. And so, I give it to Him yet again. A process that repeats far too often. Thankfully God is patient with me, and holds me and loves me in spite of me. and I can imagine Him enjoying the dance too!

So I burst with JOY!

She's still making us laugh

She's 6 now, but here's the next bit of humor!

We were sitting around the table talking about which movies we wanted to see. Garnett piped up and said “I wanna see ‘Bottomless Tub of Popcorn’.”

Seems that it’s up on the sign where all the movie titles are…. She was perfectly serious! and yet none of us could keep a straight face! Makes sense when you get movie titles like “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.”