I think that I have shared this thought before…but…Matthews collections of Jesus’ teachings starting in Matthew 5-7, commonly known as the “Sermon on the Mount” is one of my most favorite sections in the Bible. In my study of these passages, particularly the Sermon on the mount, it has been interesting to see how different […]
I laid down some guitar tracks of Amazing Grace… a blues rendition of the song. [podcast]http://www.mikegold.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Amazing-Grace.mp3[/podcast] Grace…24 years ago…almost to the day, I was baptized as a believer in Jesus. That day I proclaimed to the world that I believe that Jesus is the messiah, the Son of the most high God of the universe. […]
I had a conversation with a dear friend the other day. It was one of those “iron sharpens iron” conversations about God. Every time my friend and I have one of these conversations I leave challenged. I consider my friend to be a man of great integrity and faith…so when he shares his convictions about […]
Pat Gilbert preceded me as Director of Information Systems at Willow Creek Community Church. I am extremely thankful for the opportunities that she gave me to grow as a leader. I do not believe that I would have had the opportunity to lead and manage the Information Technology ministry at Willow Creek if it were […]
For the past couple months now the topic of Grace has been on the forefront of my mind. This is definitely a subject that demands much thought and consideration. I am sure that my little exploration into the topic will yield feeble results. I am not being overly hard on myself. Like many over the […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about Grace lately. This is definitely a subject that demands much thought and consideration. I am sure that my little exploration into the topic will yield feeble results…not because I am just being hard on myself or because I being overly humble. My view is that Grace is a word […]
From the day he lead me to Christ during a weekend church service to the day I accepted a new calling to step out in faith and leave Willow Creek staff, his influence on me as a pastor, leader, mentor and friend has played a major roll in my development as a follower of Christ […]
Back in 2005 I went on a Journey called the Justice Journey. I am not going to go into the details of the Journey here. I wrote a little about the Journey itself in the following link. http://www.mikegold.org/2009/05/justice-its-personal. However, it is safe to say that the Journey changed the lives of many of us who […]
As Martin Luther King Jr’s. Day, 2011 comes to an end, and as I reflect on what this day means, I don’t think I have the intelligence, the insight or the experience to comment on this great hero of mine. I definitely don’t have the credibility to comment on the era of history in which […]
Dear Atheist, I actually have a great deal of respect for you. You have the guts to take a stand against the status quo of religion, the will to think freely, the intelligence to test reality empirically and the passion to fight for your rights to pursue truth. No joke…this is note a mockery or a trick. I respect you […]