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Lead Serve Love is a blog which features inspirational stories about the work of individual Christians and Christian ministries transforming the community for the greater glory of God. Its purpose is to highlight how God has touched and changed lives through His servant people and outreach ministries, all so that His Kingdom may come to be on Earth as it is in Heaven.
Lead boldly. Serve every day. Love all the time! is simply another way to say go forth and be like Jesus. Christ followers believe that reaching out to the community where we live, work and play is a way of life. Loving people the way Jesus loves people means serving them and leading them to the One who can meet all their needs. Here you will find stories about Believers doing just that.
I am a sinner
I am a depraved, morally bankrupt wretched sinner through and through. I’ve attended church sporadically most of my life, haven’t spent a minute in seminary and only recently gave the Bible more than a cursory review. I’ve attended exactly one theology class and I dropped out of that.
However, in spite of my moral infidelity, I’ve come to be filled with the Holy Spirit. I’ve learned my salvation isn’t the result of what I do, but rather what Jesus has done on my behalf. I didn’t find the Holy Spirit, He found me. And in our relationship I have invited Him to change me, to use me for His purpose, to conquer my will with His own. Praise the Lord, for even an unworthy, chronic sinner like me can experience and give testimony to His glory!
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Tag Archives: serving
Choosing to Serve
My wife and I were leaving home early one morning for a weekend getaway when she asked if we were going to keep with our usual travel tradition – one stop at a favored coffee shop for java to go, … Continue reading
Water and Be Watered
He that watereth shall be watered also himself. Proverbs 11:25 Here we are taught a great lesson, that to get, we must give; that to accumulate, we must scatter; that to make ourselves happy, we must make others happy; and … Continue reading
All to Him I Owe
I once wrote “because I have a lot of sin to cover” in response to a question about why I do so much missional work. I look back now and see what a misinformed answer that was. I can’t repay … Continue reading
Live as Servants
Live as servants. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. Be a shepherd of God’s flock, give an example that others may … Continue reading
Newsletter Excerpt
Often I am asked what inspired me to write the specific one hundred ways to be like Jesus which comprise the book, and the honest answer is I have been inspired by the Bible itself and the writings of many … Continue reading
Act With Compassion
Act with compassion. Jesus had compassion with everyone, attending first to their worldly hunger and thirst, and then to their spiritual deprivation. Acts of compassion demonstrate the unfailing concern Christ has for the people, his sheep. In this way you … Continue reading
The original Lead Serve Love introduction…
I have received my copies of Lead Serve Love, and it is a beautiful book! So good to finally get my hands on it! Wow, I’m most proud of this book, my 27th publication since my first book was released … Continue reading
Volunteerism
I stood back and observed as men pulled groceries from shelves and filled bags with what the waiting women would turn into meals to feed their families. In what might have been a somber setting, I was struck by all … Continue reading
Planting Seeds, Reaping the Harvest
Looking for something substantive to do with C., the young boy I mentor, I spied the Willis House Garden Project in the bulletin one Sunday. Reasoning all boys like playing in the dirt, I made arrangements to meet Claire Dees … Continue reading
The Call to Serve
I worked at Good Samaritan Health Center recently, the medical clinic serving the poor in our county. It opens for business at 8:30AM and on the first day of the month it conducts its open enrollment. Fifty new patients are … Continue reading