Posts by Craig Smee
Pathway
You are to walk in every pathway that the LORD your God commanded you, so that life may go well for you, and so that you will prolong your days in the land that you will possess.’ Deuteronomy 5:33 With so many bible reading plans, devotionals, books, and discipleship tools out there I often wonder what tools I should be using to “walk in every pathway that the Lord” has commanded for me. Because Deuteronomy links pathway to command, I get a…
Simply Supernatural
The Introduction to Simply Supernatural So this week I turned the corner and got into the final straight of finishing my next book: Simply Supernatural – the simplicity of the Holy Spirit. I am so grateful that there are a few of you that are excited to help me edit and review this book. But I thought that I would publish the introduction to you and get your thoughts. I am still awaiting the edited version of this introduction from…
Soaked
In our online life group, (feel free to join in) we were discussing the concept of “Doctrinal Distraction”. What’s that? We get distracted within our belief structures, church life and relationship with God. There are so many tools available these days that it is often difficult to know where to begin in our attempts to pull ourselves from a spiritual slump or to find the necessary motivation to push through the tough times. When money is tight should I read…
PrayerMate
We recently discovered this incredible resource that will be very useful to anyone committed to developing good prayer habits. Helping you to pray faithfully & widely I hate it when I say that I will pray for someone and then it goes completely out of my mind. I have started using PrayerMate and I can not recommend it enough. Prayer is an amazing privilege, but it’s also really hard work (the apostle Paul compares it to a wrestling match!) PrayerMate…
Devoted to the Word
There is so much we take for granted. Today I attended a funeral of a friend and the speaker made the suggestion that in many areas of life we are ok with not really understanding things as long as they work… like your motor car or your mobile phone etc. We take the intricacies of things for granted as long as we get what we want or it does what we need it to do. I got to thinking that…
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DISCOVER Matthew 28:18-20 is our commission from Jesus. The commission starts with the word “Go.” Jesus uses that word to get us moving. When it comes to this commission Jesus wants us to have whatever we need to get it done! Romans 12:6-8 speaks of the gifts that we have been given to accomplish our great commission and it uses similar language. We have been given gifts to activate and get moving for the benefit of others. It’s all about…
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A COLLECTIVE STORY WORTH TELLING Romans 12 asks us to do what we believe we have been called to do-well (Romans 12: 6-8). We are to tell the world what God has placed in our heart. Our ministries vision statement is simply a summary of a collective story. Whatever our ministries vision, it is what we have been called to do collectively. An organization like your ministry is the sum total of personal Ideas, visions; purpose and direction. It is…
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YOUR DIGITAL STRATEGY 3 The term digital strategy in itself is flawed. By calling it a digital strategy it implies that we have other non-digital strategies, and yet the very success of your digital strategy and approach is how easily it co-exists with your physical world ministry strategy. It also creates the question – what is real-world and what is digital?. To a person who is unable to leave their home for whatever reason, any digital contact they have IS…