About the author

Dave Henning

Share

Braced for the future

By Dave Henning / August 18, 2015

“Therefore, as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.”- Colossians 2:6-7 “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”- Confucius My freshman year at Luther High School South […]

Share

Small, quiet invitations

By Dave Henning / August 17, 2015

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah: “Go to the house of the Rechabites and speak with them and bring them to the house of the Lord . . .”- Jeremiah 35:1-2 In today’s blog John Ortberg discusses the fourth (of […]

Share

Easy on the inside

By Dave Henning / August 16, 2015

“But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost, for a wide door of effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.”- 1 Corinthians 16:9 “Easy doesn’t come from the outside.  It comes from the inside.”- John Ortberg In Chapter 4 of All the Places to Go, John Ortberg presents the third common […]

Share

Making difficult decisions

By Dave Henning / August 15, 2015

“God is a door opener, but he is not a celestial enabler.”- John Ortberg “Even as he [God] chose us in him [Christ] before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.”- Ephesians 1:4 Today John Ortberg addresses the second common myth about doors in Chapter 4 of All […]

Share

The day of small things

By Dave Henning / August 14, 2015

“Faith is not about me getting what I want in my outer world; it’s about God getting what he wants in my inner world.”- John Ortberg “Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin.”- Zechariah 4:10 (NLT) John Ortberg continues Chapter 4 of All the Places to Go […]

Share

Make our lives count

By Dave Henning / August 13, 2015

In Chapter 4 of All the Places to Go, John Ortberg discusses statements people think are in the Bible but are not to be found there.  One is:  When God closes a door, he opens a window.”  Pastor Ortberg points out that Mother Superior from The Sound of Music says that.  The Bible says: “What […]

Share

How to fix a broken story

By Dave Henning / August 12, 2015

John Ortberg concludes Chapter 3 of All the Places to Go by stating that there are times when we become so obsessed with vocational open doors that we’re blind to relational open doors. Yet, every heart comes with a door.  Pastor Ortberg emphasizes that one of the great gifts of life is having the door […]

Share

Open doors are everywhere

By Dave Henning / August 11, 2015

As John Ortberg continues Chapter 3 of All the Places to Go, he posits that actually noticing people leads to open doors.  He states: “Doors open when I actually notice and care about people I might otherwise overlook.” Pastor Ortberg relates a story he read about a woman who locked her keys in her car.  […]

Share

Living with one foot raised

By Dave Henning / August 10, 2015

“When Naomi heard in Moab that the Lord had come to the aid of his people by providing food for them, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to return home from there.”- Ruth 1:6 In Chapter 3 of All the Places to Go, John Ortberg reflects on the story of Naomi and her daughters-in-law, Orpah and […]

Share

Little by little

By Dave Henning / August 9, 2015

John Ortberg continues Chapter 3 of All the Places to Go with a discussion of what-if? people.  What-if? people lead imaginative lives.  A what-if? attitude is their response to ideas and events.  Pastor Ortberg adds: “What-if” is a big idea, as big as God, for it is the practice of God.” John adds that God […]

Share

But wait! There’s more.

By Dave Henning / August 8, 2015

John Ortberg begins Chapter 3 (“No Mo FOMO: Overcoming the Fear of Missing Out”) of All the Places to Go with the statement that “ironically, it’s vulnerability, not invincibility, that leads to the human connections we really hunger for.”  In contrast, the epidemic of using social media sites to compare our lives to others has […]

Share

The object of our faith

By Dave Henning / August 7, 2015

“If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move.”- Matthew 17:20 “It is better to have little faith in a big God than to have big faith in a little God.”- John Ortberg John Ortberg concludes Chapter 2 of […]

Page 264 of 372
Call Now Button