Thursday is for Discipleship Take Up Your Cross and Follow Jesus 24 Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find … More The Master’s Words: Refreshment, Challenge and Glory
Musing on a Sunday Afternoon The days are longer. The air is warmer (slightly). Soon, farm machinery will start to move across the fields. Soon after, the seed will go into the ground. Good weather should also make Christians think about how they will begin to plant the seed of God’s word. And we will … More Prayer Walking is Great. It Also has Little Biblical Warrant
Tuesday is for Preaching Day 24 How Does the Candidate Speak for Life? Is Abortion that Important? Proverbs 24 If you are preaching next week on Right to Life Sunday or if you want to help your church do something about the horror that is abortion, I offer you this PDF file as a possible insert … More For Right to Life Sunday
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. and his vision of a character united society, I offer this PDF file to a chapter I wrote for the 2009 book edited by John Fuder and Noel Castellanos, A Heart for the Community: New Models for Urban and Suburban Ministry. To purchase the book click here. It … More Towards a Character-United-Society and the Dream of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Intensely local ministry is not defined by programs advertised but by people touched by gospel love and compassion. Intensely local ministry means we step in to stop the fight between kids who aren’t ours. Intensely local ministry means being the chaplain to the neighborhood, on the spot whenever a need arises. Intensely Local ministry means … More This Past Week’s Tweets on Intensely Local Ministry
By “most generous” I simply mean that this site sent a lot of people to my site in 2010. I don’t remember who it was who introduced me to Ann Voskamp‘s blog. Maybe it was LlamaMomma? Whoever it was, thank you, thank you! In my humble but completely accurate opinion, Ann is one of the … More Number 1 Most Generous Site – goes to Ann Voskamp’s Blog
Everyone who knows me knows that I hit the proverbial jackpot when Stephnie Diane Rankin agreed to become my bride on June 12, 1984. They also know that I married so far above my station in life that some of them probably point to our marriage as proof that God exists and is still doing … More The Wonders and Joys of a Godly Wife
By “most generous” I simply mean that this site sent a lot of people to my site. LlamaMomma had the distinction of being the second most prolific “people site” in sending traffic to the chosenrebel blog. Besides being a friend, LlamaMomma is the mother of some very active boys, two of whom are twins. She … More Number 2 Most Generous Site – goes to LlamaMomma’s Blog
By “most generous” I simply mean that this site sent a lot of people to my site. The site from which the third most blog hits came in from was Ed Stetzer at LifeWay Research. This was a surprise to me and I am honored. Ed is a friend and we are scheduled to teach … More Number 3 Most Generous Site – goes to Ed Stetzer’s Blog
Today the Chosenrebel’s Blog passed 25,000 page hits in less than 12 months. It has been an interesting year. We started out with the plan to move north and plant a new church closer to the seminary. The hope was that we could reach a new community with the gospel and have more opportunity to … More Milestone Reached: Thanks for the Last Year
ChosenRebel's Blog 