Wednesday is for Prayer This week and next, I am taking two doctoral classes, the completion of which will put me at 80% of the classwork done since starting the process after I resigned from New Song to invest my remaining years training the next generation of church planters. The two classes I am taking … More A Very Personal Prayer
Tuesday is for Preaching Years ago, before I taught Church Planting at one seminary, I taught preaching at another. One of the things I encouraged my students to do was to “drink the week into every message.” It really was a rather simple idea (most of my ideas are). I wanted them to study their … More “Drink the Week into Every Message”
Towards a Character-United-Society and the Dream of Martin Luther King, Jr..
Monday is for Discussion A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with a Catholic priest, a friend, and discuss the gospel. We had lunch at a local Olive Garden and after a wide ranging discussion I moved the conversation to the gospel itself. “Pastor,” I said, “my understanding of the … More Conversing with a Catholic Priest about the Gospel
A Picture of a Future Church. Pray!
“Life Dominating Sins” I remember what I thought the first time I heard the phrase.
The following links were collected from some of my reading this past week. I don’t endorse all of the content. But all of the content will challenge your soul to grow. Engaging Culture Should a Prize-Winning Fighter be Granted Special Status? (Immigration) Gitmo Surprise: Some Want to Stay (CNSNEWS.com) President Obama, We are Listening (Guy … More Read these Links at Your Own Risk: Some are Radical
A Hymn to Cry Out to God. A song to the tune of Before the Throne.
Friday Rant Part of the problem with the American church is that we spent so much of the 1980 and 90’s pickling ourselves in how to market the church that we lost Jesus. But it is only lovers, real lovers of Jesus who can tell others about him in any believable way and right now … More Consumers of a Christian-flavored Life
City Transformation and Justice is Not Enough (Part 2).
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