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In the Marvel Studios movie Spider-Man: Homecoming, Peter Parker is eager to use his special abilities as Spider-Man to help others and to make a difference in people’s lives. Having recently arrived back home from Germany where Tony Stark enlisted him to fight a battle, Peter believes he’s well on his way to becoming an Avenger in no time. It’s as if Stark doesn’t want Peter to use his talents to help others but simply to sit on his hands while others take care of matters. >> I’ve written here about how sometimes we need to take small steps in faith which can lead to other opportunities in life.

In the second of a three-part series, I’ll be discussing what you can do if your church doesn’t recognise your gifts and you feel that you aren’t appreciated. Now while this verse refers to our offerings, I think there is some application there when it comes to offering our gifts and talents to God as well. In the first part of this series, I talked about how our gifts are there to serve and edify others within the church. You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.

In the first of a three-part series, I’ll be discussing what we can do when it’s hard to operate in your gifts at church. Check whether God has actually called you to use your gift In his book Every Good Endeavour, Tim Keller explains that calling is the coming together of 3 things: Ability: both your and others’ recognition that you are good at something Now I don’t think the recognition of one’s ability has to be unanimous to satisfy the ability component. These idols can start off as good and legitimate things, but if they ultimately shift our focus away from God and onto ourselves or others, then this has to be brought under Christ’s lordship.

If you are creative in any way and are doing something for the kingdom of God, chances are you’ve probably often experienced difficulty or resistance to your efforts in many shapes and forms. Nor does he suggest that maybe in His providence God knew that it wouldn’t be right or that Paul wouldn’t be happy. Likewise, we need to also recognise that if God has given us dreams or a calling, and we are doing something for the kingdom, then it will be violently opposed by the enemy to prevent it from ever emerging. The War of Art, which is a play on words on Sun Tzu’s military treatise The Art of War, gives strategic and practical ways of combating Resistance to our creative efforts every day.