The Act of Faith https://dcpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/0320-The-Act-of-Faith.png …faith, by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. ~ James 2:17b READING: Genesis 6:9-22 The Hebrew concept of faith makes the practical assumption that if people truly believe a message (aman) they will act on it in some way. For instance, if I heard a news...

What is Faith? https://dcpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/0319-What-is-Faith.png Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished! ~ Luke 1:45 READING: Genesis 15:1-6 Volumes have been written to parse the meaning of the word “faith.” Here, let’s look at one small aspect that particularly applies to us as church planters. Although...

Why Do We Go Through Storms in Life? #2 https://dcpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/storm-life-2.png And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. ~ Mark 4:39 (ESV) READING: Daniel 3:17, 18 I believe the second reason why the Lord allows his children to...

Why Do We Go Through Storms in Life? #1 https://dcpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/0317-Why-Do-We-Go-Through-Storms-in-Life-1-.png But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” ~ Mark 4:38 (ESV) READING: Mark 4:35-41 It amazes me that the disciples went through a storm while...

We’ve Never Done It This Way Before https://dcpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/0315-Weve-Never-Done-It-This-Way-Before.png Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved. ~ Matthew 9:17 READING: Matthew 9:9-17 One of...

What Makes a Nehemiah? #7 – Vision Casting & Team Building https://dcpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/0314-What-Makes-a-Nehemiah-7-.png Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer derision.” And I told them of the hand...

What Makes a Nehemiah? #6 – Community Assessment https://dcpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/0313-What-Makes-a-Nehemiah-6-.png So I went to Jerusalem and was there three days. Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. And I told no one what my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There was no animal with me...

What Makes a Nehemiah? #5 – Working Your Plan and Facing Opposition https://dcpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/0312-What-Makes-a-Nehemiah-5.png Then I came to the governors of the province beyond the river and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent with me officers of the army and horsemen. But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah, the Ammonite servant, heard...

What Makes a Nehemiah? #4 – Planning https://dcpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/0311-What-Makes-a-Nehemiah-4.png And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ graves, that I may rebuild it.” And the king said to me… “How long...

What Makes a Nehemiah? #3 – Patience https://dcpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/0310-What-Makes-a-Nehemiah-3.png The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it happened in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the capital… In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took up...