August 2010
2 posts
Doing God's Work in Oklahoma City →
(Click on the title to link). I am proud of my church, OKC First Church of the Nazarene, and of my pastor, Jon Middendorf. I think the church really gets it, and my church will use this new facility as a tool to that end. At OKC First, we seek three things: Friendship With God, Friendship with Each Other, and Open Friendship for the Sake of the World. Churches are used to hearing about the...
The Virtue of Stick-to-itiveness
Stick-to-itiveness! You have probably heard it before, and now the Merriam-Webster dictionary includes it with this definition: “dogged perseverence: tenacity”. When this virtue is displayed, it seems to me it looks a lot like fortitude. Fortitude is defined by the same dictionary resource as “strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or...