Here’s a great story about one of the greatest church planters and equippers of church planters in the history of the church is John Wesley. My Calvinistic heart delights in the usefulness of the first Wesleyan’s usefulness to the sovereign God. There were many reasons why John Wesley was so powerfully effective but don’t underestimate … More Wisdom from One of the Greatest Church Planters of All Time
Tuesday is for Preaching One of the men that I trained as a church planter in the early years of our own church plant has been marvelously successful from a numerical point of view. He and his original partner now pastor a growing multi-site mega church that for the first nine years boasted a 40%+ … More Future Mega Church Planter Asks How to Stay Fresh in the Pulpit
The Parable of the Weeds 24 He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, 25 but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. 26 So when the plants came up and bore grain, … More How Much Doctrinal Fruit Inspection is Wise?
“Father, millions and millions of professing believers around the world heard the word of the Kingdom today. Oh God, give them ears to hear. Ears that are willing to obey, to repent and believe will never be turned away from the mercy that flows from the cross. Your seed has been sown. Let it find … More Prayer for a Sunday Afternoon
Weekend Links (5/14/11) Weekend Links is a new feature to the BLOG. I will provide links to resources on the web in various categories, that I have found interesting and that I hope will provide help to the budding missional leader. Enjoy. Theology on Mission What does it mean to preach the gospel everywhere? (By … More New Feature to the BLOG: Weekend Links
Weekend Musings Justin Blizzard is an Acts29 Pastor planting a new church in Raleigh, NC. I have never met him but I like him. The list below is his. It is a great one. Use it to galvanize your team for the mission. You don’t need a lot of people to plant a church. You … More Ten Reasons Not to Join a Church Plant
Or Gossip Girl, or TMZ, or Access Hollywood or …. There are so many trivialities in life. Don’t waste your life on them. Spend your life for Christ and his Kingdom, for hurting people who need hope, and endangered youth who need rescue. It’s a funny picture below, but how many other things that … More Every Time You Watch Jersey Shore (or Gossip Girl) a Book Commits Suicide
Thursday is for Discipleship Peter and John had been detained and questioned by a Sadduceean Council. They had preached the gospel and it had gotten them into hot water with the one’s responsible for Jesus’ crucifixion. Didn’t matter to them. Jesus was not in the tomb and they knew that “there is no other name … More Who Needs Prayer? Everyone Who Needs Boldness
Wednesday is for Prayer “By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was … More Choosing Christ over the Treasures of America
Tuesday is for Preaching For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to … More Oh How We Need this in Our Age of Celebrity Preachers
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