Tuesday is for Preaching A Message Outline for 2 Samuel 11 Message Title: Spiritual Bankruptcy is Not as Far Away as You Think ( I like titles that hint at application. ) Three Points: (Usually narrative passages don’t lend themselves to this kind of linear outline but this one does. I tried to keep the … More If You Tolerate Sin In Your Life Today, You Will Tolerate More Tomorrow.
Monday Discussion The temptation for many church planters is to trust more in their vision, personality or communication ability than in the power of the gospel, prayer or equipping the saints. The result can often be a quick start with lots of energy but an equally quick plateau and shallow disciples more dependent on … More Church Planter: Your Personality Isn’t Enough
I ran across this when WordPress automatically linked it to one of my posts as having similar content. Must have been a tag that was similar. The author is a good writer. She is insightful and paints graphic pictures of the meaninglessness of much of what Americans fill their lives with. She is a cynic … More The World We Live In Needs Us to Befriend Them
Here’s an article that a former pastor’s wife passed on to me and said it might be helpful to the men I train. Treat your wife like a bride every day. True Confessions of a Pastor’s Wife Practical Counsel: We always required every new pastor hired to, as a first priority, gather a team of … More Church Planter: Take Care of Your Wife
Weekend Musings and Quotes from My Reading I am reading a fantastic book that critiques, negotiates, and corrects some of the worst and best of postmodern thinkers. Michael E. Wittmer’s Don’t Stop Believing: Why Living Like Jesus Is Not Enough (Zondervan, 2008) is sensitive, fair, clear, funny, generous, thoughtful and most of all, biblical. I … More A Critique of Postmodernism in the Church with both Bite and Love
Friday is for Heart Songs What does it take to change the world (God’s Way)? King Saul had a great beginning. He starts with a changed heart (10:9) and the Spirit of God coming upon him mightily (10:10). He starts with great boldness and leadership (11:7). He starts with great support from the majority of … More What Does It Take to Change the World?
Thursday is for Discipleship Question: Why must every disciple be a multiplier? Biblical Answers: Because the apostolic pattern is clear — 2 Timothy 2:2 — find and teach faithful others who will teach others also. Because the apostolic expectation is clear — Hebrews 5:12 — “by this time you ought to be teachers” Because of … More Why is it Necessary for Disciples to Multiply Themselves?
Wednesday is for Prayer This past week I was training church planters in Schenectady, NY and met some treasures of the Kingdom. On my 525 mile trip to WV to meet up with my incredible bride and youngest daughter, I was burdened in prayer for a number of the men and couples that I met … More New Heroes and New Friends
Six Questions on a Thursday to Clarity Your Discipleship I just rediscovered a book on my shelf that I don’t know how it came into my possession. It is a review copy of Glenn McDonald’s The Disciple Making Church: From Dry Bones to Spiritual Vitality. Here are six questions from the opening chapter of his … More So You Think You are a Disciple!
Monday Discussion We don’t need to plant churches. We need to plant church-planting churches. We need to plant churches that replicate themselves as part of how they define health and obedience to Christ. As Ed Stetzer and Warren Bird write in Viral Churches: We want to lay the foundation for an out-of-control replication of new … More We Don’t Need to Plant Churches
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