Vision Casting Articles

Ever been told you can’t do that? What would you know? You are too young; wait until you have learned more!

A good tree cannot help but produce good fruit! Under the right conditions, anyone can try to produce fruit no matter how small or young.

If You Keep Doing What You Have Always Been Doing,

For more than 10 years, I have been trying to renovate my house, but cracks in the walls kept appearing, and no matter how many times I fixed the doors, they would not shut properly. The problem was that three-quarters of the house sat on sand and one-quarter on clay. The pylons had only been placed about six inches into the ground, and there is even a spring beside the house!

Long ago, three men were cutting stone in a French quarry.

A traveller passed by and, noticing their hard labour, stopped to ask what they were doing.

He asked the first man, “What are you doing?”
Without looking up, the man replied, “Cutting stone.”

He asked the second man, “What are you doing?”
The man answered, “Earning 30 francs a day.”

Finally, he asked the third man, “What are you doing?”

The third man stood up, smiled, and said,
“I’m helping to build the greatest cathedral in all of France.”

The Rich Man and Lazarus

In Luke 16:19–31, we read of the story of a rich man and a beggar. The beggar sat at the rich man’s gate, but that man of wealth was unwilling to reach out to help him. Eventually they both died, and the rich man ended up in agony, desperately wanting just a drop of water to cool his tongue. While this is a terrible end for the rich man, the real tragedy is that he wanted someone to go witness to his brothers so they wouldn't come to that awful place. Abraham made it clear that no one could go back to tell his brothers.

We love to read about the amazing transformation that happened in Acts, Chapter 2. The Holy Spirit came and filled the 120 people gathered in the Upper Room, and the results were nothing short of amazing. Hearing the gospel proclaimed led to the conversion of three thousand people, including many from other nations who heard it in their own language. These new believers gathered into what most people would call the first church, and everything seemed perfect: their worship, their devotion to God, the way they gave to one another sacrificially, and the way they grew. 

Chris Kennedy’s brother-in-law has ALS, a disease that stops someone from being able to use their muscles and usually leads to death. On July 15th, 2014 Chris Kennedy poured a bucket of ice water over his head and uploaded the video to Facebook to draw attention to the disease. Thus began what became known as the “Ice Bucket Challenge.” In the video, he challenged six close friends and his cousins to do the same to raise awareness for ALS.

Most of us have heard the story of the little boy walking along a beach covered with starfish. He began tossing them into the water one by one.

In Luke 15.1-7 we read the story of a shepherd with 100 sheep. When one runs away, the shepherd leaves the 99 to go find that lost sheep. When he returns with the lost one, there is great rejoicing!