It's been cold in Middle Tennessee. Morning temperatures in the single digits. Snow. Icy roads. Even so, I'm blessed to sit in a warm office this morning with a hot cup of coffee and a little time for reflecting. This is our year-end newsletter. We want to thank you for supporting Timothy Network through another [...]
How is it possible to make sense of the way Americans view and practice religious faith in the 21st century? The "church landscape," faith, and belief systems are all undergoing drastic change and flux in America. How do authentic disciples of Jesus Christ make sense of and properly address it? Opportunities for reaching people seem boundless, but we'd better [...]
Transformation is a concept that gets a lot of attention within the Timothy Network. It's a core objective of the ministry to see lives transformed by the gospel of Jesus Christ. (Romans 12:2) It's one thing to talk and write about transformation. Living a transformed lifestyle is another matter all together. It requires focused intentionality. [...]
I recently posted a blog titled "Plutarch Got It Right." My motive was to provoke thinking about Christian discipleship. I used this quote from Plutarch, a Greek essayist, to stir the pot: "A mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited." Some of you agreed with the premise, while others [...]
"A mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited." The opening quote is from Plutarch, a Greek biographer, essayist, and historian. He lived and wrote at the end of the first and beginning of the second century A.D. A granite marker in the heart of campus at Middle Tennessee [...]
Remember the six new friends I recently mentioned? I met them in early April at a local help-center known as "Greenhouse Ministries." They share the plight of homelessness. A middle-aged man named Fredrick is one of the six. He's from the south side of Chicago, a place known for big-city poverty and crime. Fredrick [...]
Do you think Jesus fretted over which men to choose as His disciples? He would, after all, have only a short time to train them. The work of establishing the church would then be in their hands. We know that He prayed before choosing them, but I doubt that he did much hand-wringing over the [...]
Catching fish has come a long way since the net-fishing days of Peter, Andrew, James and John. I know a man, for example, who helped invent sonar equipment for finding fish. He founded and ran a successful company that designed and manufactured sonar gadgetry for the fishing industry in the pacific northwest. His stories were [...]
The following article was written by Dr. Robert Blaylock, a charter member of Timothy Network's Board of Accountability. mls Jesus, the master teacher, often used metaphors, similes, and parables to communicate truths about His kingdom. A recent conversation with Mike surfaced a useful metaphor for the Timothy Network-that of an incubator. The most common answer [...]