The missional conversation is growing. What does it mean to be 'missional' in our lives? In our ministries? What does it mean to be 'missional without being mean'? Add to your list of blogsites Michael McMinn's Missional Position. Not only is Michael a missional, Irish, student ministry-and-Starbucks loving Texan, but he's got some great thoughts [...]
If you dig into some of the archives here at tomcottar(dot)org, you'll find I've had to disable the comment option on some of the posts. Lately I've been getting 300-500 spambot-generated comments a day–everything from vacation properties to unmentionable porn sites. So, if you try to comment and find that comments are disabled, I'm sorry. [...]
The past 2 weeks have been at a brutal pace. I'm going to have to re-learn the 14th and 15th letters of the alphabet before I drown. The good thing is that today's Quotable Monday comes from a long-time mentor of mine. He's been an encouragement to me for years. He's offered me wisdom when [...]
Mentor. The Mentor is not only modeled through the pages of the Bible, it is explicitly commanded in the form of ‘teaching them to observe’ (Mt. 28:20) and ‘discipling’. Our God is the Teacher in whose instruction we ‘delight’ (Ps 1:2). The only Perfect Man was the Discipler of all nations, and men who follow [...]
Warrior The second fingerprint/blueprint I see equally unmistakable in Scripture is The Warrior. Our God is the Warrior of BOTH testaments. Gentle Jesus, meek and mild? Hardly. In Revelation 19:11, He closes the chapter of human history on a white warhorse, in a blood-spattered robe, with a sword in His mouth and an iron rod [...]
“It is painful, being a man, to have to assert the privilege, or the burden, which Christianity lays upon my own sex. I am crushingly aware of how inadequate most of us are, on our actual and historical individualities, to fill the place prepared for us.” –CS Lewis, God in the Dock From a [...]
Here's an easy one. After taking a couple of weeks off after my Cap 10 run and birthday extravaganza, I signed up yesterday for the Austin FCA-sponsored Run for Glory on Saturday, May 12 at the Dell Diamond (home to the Round Rock Express). Your $10 entry fee not only goes to a great [...]
At our men's retreat over the weekend, I used the following quote as a springboard. “Guys are in trouble these days,” says Garrison Keillor. “Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement and now it's just a problem to be overcome. Plato, St. Francis, Leonardo DaVinci, Vince Lombardi—you don’t find guys of that caliber [...]
Don't get your hopes up…nothing spiritual this morning, just a good chuckle. While preparing for our men's retreat this weekend, I ran across a list of why men are so cheerful: 1. Your last name stays put. 2. The garage is all yours. 3. Wedding plans take care of themselves. 4. Chocolate is just another [...]
The video from Project SERVE last Saturday can now be found here on YouTube.