Tuesday is for Preaching Here’s a great text for all preachers to adopt as both their prayer and goal for ministry. On second thought, this is a great prayer for any believer in Christ to pray. Psalm 69:6 (ESV) 6 Let not those who hope in you be put to shame through … More A Preacher’s Prayer: Scratch that, A Believer’s Prayer
Monday Discussion One of the great disappointments of any gathering of pastors is how much of the discussion around our tables, at our conferences, ministerials and seminars revolves around trivialities. We talk more about systems and programs, size of churches, staff hires, staff departures, grumblers and controllers, elders and deacons, ministry structures, what my friend … More The Discussion We Need to Have with Pastors
No living person has had a greater impact on my life and theology than Dr. John Piper. Eight years ago, I had the privilege of being the speaker at the Bethlehem Baptist Church Men’s retreat and meeting Dr. Piper in a setting where he was just one of the guys. It was a great experience to … More Portrait of a Disciple
Weekend Links Leaders, there are lots of though provoking material here. Evangelists, there is help and hope for the mission of making Christ the issue. Care Givers and Culture changers, there is substance to chew on here. But like every week, the presence of a link here doesn’t mean I agree with all of the … More Tim Tebow; Leadership Freak; Lenard Sweet on Following; Mark Driscoll; and much more
Weekend Musings Sometimes you find the strangest things when you are looking for something else. I was cleaning up some computer files tonight, deleting this, moving that, editing and saving something else and I stumbled across a file that I hadn’t expected—one that is hard to let go of. It’s a note I left for … More Deleting Files and Finding Memories
Friday is for Heart Songs Unprepared. I didn’t bring a shovel and now the first snow has fallen and I am unprepared to be a blessing to my neighbors. I had taken the extra shovel and put it out to bring down to Watseka and then decided I would bring it on my next trip. … More Unprepared
Thursday is for Discipleship Six years before he was imprisoned by the Nazi’s, Dietrich Bonhoeffer penned these words: “When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.” It was passages like Matthew 10:37-39; Mark 8:34-38; Luke 14:25-27 that forced Bonhoeffer to the conclusion that would later cost him his life. Questions: What part … More The Place of “Dying” in Discipleship
Wednesday is for Prayer His cousin and probably boyhood buddy had been imprisoned. But the fact of his imprisonment did not diminish that among men born of women, he was an extraordinary man. Jesus called John the Baptist, the greatest man ever born in Matthew 11:11. But now news has come that his cousin, buddy, … More Healing for the Brokenhearted
Tuesday is for Preaching Picked this up some time ago from Justin Taylor quoting Stephen Um. [Bracketed and blue comments are my own.] Advice for Aspiring Christ-Centered Preachers Wise advice here from Stephen Um: Read the Scriptures. In order to see how inter-canonical themes and the narrative of redemptive history run through the entire Bible, and … More Preaching that Exalts the Risen Christ
Monday Discussion [Four and a half years ago when I first started at Trinty Church. Updated.] Went for a walk last night to count houses and pray. I am acting as the interim pastor (part time, 4 days a week) for a great multi-site church with a vision not to be big but to have … More Finding the “man of peace” in a Neighborhood
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