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Monthly Archives: May 2017

Pastoral Calling

Chaplain Steve Durkac Posted on May 24, 2017 by Steve DurkacMay 24, 2017

I am an advocate of doing church simply and a believer in the God ordained pastoral calling. However, I realize that there are voices in organic, simple, house church movements who reject the roles or at least the position of a “pastor” as belonging to institutional church. (I spoke to my concern of pastoral clergy criticism in my blog post “Critics of … Continue reading →

Posted in Simpler Church | Tagged House Church, Micro, Non-traditional Church, Organic Church, Pastor, Simple Church, Small Group

Critics of Church Styles

Chaplain Steve Durkac Posted on May 24, 2017 by Steve DurkacMay 24, 2017

Several years ago I left traditional institutional denominational church pastoral ministry and received a lot of criticism from my colleagues on planting a house/organic church fellowship. Criticism from my fellow traditional ministers didn’t surprise me as much as the criticism I received from other organic church advocates, including random unexpected emails and even letters chastising me and trying to correct … Continue reading →

Posted in Simpler Church | Tagged House Church, Micro, Non-traditional Church, Organic Church, Pastor, Simple Church, Small Group

Organic Pastor?

Chaplain Steve Durkac Posted on May 24, 2017 by Steve DurkacMay 24, 2017

Somewhere along the line of my journey with CrossHope Chapel, it occurred to me that my calling in this mission was one of an “organic pastor” in philosophy, approach, and ministry. I want to give you a definition for the term “organic pastor” which is a term that I like to use when talking about those called of God to pastoral … Continue reading →

Posted in Simpler Church | Tagged House Church, Non-traditional Church, Organic Church, Pastor, Simple Church, Small Group

79 Years Later

Chaplain Steve Durkac Posted on May 24, 2017 by Steve DurkacMay 24, 2017

Yesterday, May 23, 2017 would have been my birth mother’s 79th birthday, had she not died in 1990. I was thinking earlier today that when I get to heaven I will have two mothers – the mother that adopted me and the mother that birthed me. Interestingly, the mom who raised me is named Irene and the mom who birthed me … Continue reading →

Posted in Mere Observations | Tagged Adoption, adult adoptee, Family, Jeanette Thoemke

Observations for SDA’s

Chaplain Steve Durkac Posted on May 24, 2017 by Steve DurkacMay 24, 2017

I have been out of the Seventh-day Adventist church almost as long as I was in the Seventh-day Adventist church. Since I have been among and ministering within non-Adventist churches, I have observed some things that I have always thought would be worth sharing with my Adventist friends. These are observations that I wish were shared with me when I … Continue reading →

Posted in Mere Observations | Tagged Adventist, Former Adventist, Once Adventist, SDA, Seventh-day Adventist, Steve Durkac

My Baby Feet

Chaplain Steve Durkac Posted on May 23, 2017 by Steve DurkacMay 23, 2017

I finally got my baby feet. What I mean is, I just received the card stock paper where the nurses at St. John’s Hospital in Fargo, North Dakota inked my feet, shortly after being born on October 1, 1962 and made an impression of my baby feet with ink. As I looked at the paper with the impression of my new … Continue reading →

Posted in Mere Observations | Tagged Adoption, adult adoptee, Family

3 Scriptures for Adoptees

Chaplain Steve Durkac Posted on May 23, 2017 by Steve DurkacMay 23, 2017

I am an adoptee, and you can read my personal testimony to learn how that impacted my conversion and sustaining faith in Jesus Christ and His word. Here I wish to share 3 Scripture verses that I believe speak to the real significance of every individual who may be wrestling with their identity because of being an adopted child.   Jeremiah … Continue reading →

Posted in Mere Observations | Tagged adoptee, Adoption, Bible

Fake Godliness

Chaplain Steve Durkac Posted on May 21, 2017 by Steve DurkacMay 21, 2017

Today at CrossHope Chapel we took a cross-reference jump from 2 Thessalonians 2:5 to 2 Timothy 3:1-5 and read this: “But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, … Continue reading →

Posted in Pastoral Notes | Tagged 2 Timothy 3:1-5, Bible, Isaiah 8:20, last days

The Pre-Trib Rapture: A Sequence of Events

Chaplain Steve Durkac Posted on May 20, 2017 by Steve DurkacApril 20, 2023

Here is a 15-point sequence of events as taught by the pre-tribulation rapture belief… The Lord Jesus Himself descends from His Father’s House where He has been preparing a place for His bride, the church.  John 14:1-3 • 1 Thessalonians 4:16 He will come to receive us to Himself. John 14:1-3 He will resurrect those who have died – those who have … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible Answers, Thru Revelation | Tagged bible prophecy, Dispensationalism, Dispensationalism vs Historicism, end time, End-Times, last days, pre-trib, pre-tribulation, rapture, timeline

The Day of the Lord

Chaplain Steve Durkac Posted on May 20, 2017 by Steve DurkacMay 20, 2017

As we get into 2 Thessalonians 2 in our teaching series at CrossHope Chapel, we’ll see that Paul is trying to explain to the believers there that they have not missed the rapture and they are not now in “the day of the Lord” (2 Thessalonians 2:2 ESV). These next weeks as we look at 2 Thessalonians 2 and 3 … Continue reading →

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Posted in Bible Answers | Tagged End-Times, tribulation, wrath

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