Guest blogger, Claire Lemp shares excellent strategies for question 7 of the How to Start a Wilderness Ministry: Top 20 Questions: How do I effectively share the Gospel using the outdoors? There’s no more natural place to talk about Jesus than the outdoors. Outdoor...
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No More Lukewarm Day 5 – How to Be a Good Steward of the Personal Transformation You Experience in the Wilderness | Revelation 3:14-22
Welcome to Day 5 in a 5 Day series on what it looks like to be “All in with Jesus.” Let's not be lukewarm! If you are catching up, the last 4 days have talked about: 1. The unintended consequences of dipping your toes in with Jesus, 2. The fact that belief in an...
Sage Leaf Trail Talk: The Crushing, Beautiful Reality of Jesus in Isaiah 53
Have you ever felt crushed? I bet you have in some way. Emotionally we are crushed by grief, loss, and loneliness. Physically we feel crushed by injuries, sickness, or chronic pain we can’t do anything to change. Intellectually we feel crushed by limitations, failures, or comparison. Spiritually we feel crushed at times by wondering where God is in our circumstances. In all of these human experiences, we have a kind and loving Savior who can identify with our aching pain.
5 Outcomes that Consistently Happen on Wilderness Trips
There are five basic outcomes I consistently see in the wilderness. As a youth pastor, these are things that I want to see in young people and I think the wilderness is a really powerful tool for that. These outcomes are what full spectrum youth ministry is after....
Don’t Doubt Your Ability to Interpret Truth
This is the last post in the series on How Wilderness Navigation Informs a Quest for Truth. Guest blogger, Emily Huguenin, examines a third obstacle that you can overcome in your quest for "What is true?" OBSTACLE #3: DOUBTING OUR OWN ABILITY TO INTERPRET TRUTH Years...