Friday is for Heart Songs My failures as a parent are too many and too embarrassing to recount. But there are a couple of things I did right. One was marrying Stephnie. A better wife and mother a man could not ask for, … well he could, but he’d be stupid! I’m not stupid. Another … More Family Slogans and Lasting Values
Thursday is for Discipleship How does the simplicity and obviousness of certain passages escape our notice? Perhaps we are just too familiar with some passages. We grow dull of eye and ear and neither see nor hear what is so obvious. Take the “Great Commission” of Matthew 28 for an example. “Go therefore and make … More The Mission is Not to be Educators
Wednesday is for Prayer Busy day today. At 10 am a Skype conference call with North American World Zone Leaders of Dynamic Church Planting International. We will be mapping out strategies and plans to resource and network with other church planting agencies to accelerate church planting in North America. Following the Skype conference call and … More In Need of Prayer (aren’t we always?)
Tuesday is for Preaching Thesis: Most messages require a firm structure for maximum audience involvement. Therefore, I prefer to phrase titles and principles/points in ways that: First, … Begin to hint at application for the hearer. I try to stay away from titles that are merely descriptive, for example “Joshua Leads the People to Conquer … More Where are You Going with Your Preaching?
Monday Discussion Therefore, do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, or of me His prisoner, but join with me in suffering for the gospel according to the power of God.” (2 Timothy 1:8) Paul is an old man whose life is about to be poured out as a drink offering to God … More “Join with Me in Suffering for the Gospel”
Weekend Musings The following are excerpted from the book The Wisdom of Stability, by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove. All of them are about community. Bold topic headlines and bracketed [ ] comments are my own. On Facebook “Friends” I get to choose who I want to ‘friend’ and whose friendship requests I respond to. We gather around … More The Dangers of a Facebook “Friend”
Weekend Musings Living an intensely local life is not easy, comfortable or without conflict. It is just a way we have to rediscover if we want to reach the post modern world with the gospel. The following are all quotes from Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove‘s The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture (Paraclete Press, … More Living a Passionately Simple and Connected Life to Community
Book: Bill Hybels, Axiom:Powerful Leadership Proverbs, (Zondervan, 2008) Brief Review: This was a book I “knew” I would not like. I was wrong. I could quibble with Hybels about some points of theology that slip through, but the bottom line is that this was a fantastic book on leadership. The 76 aphorisms or axioms that … More Book Review of Bill Hybels Axiom: Powerful Leadership Proverbs
Friday is for Heart Songs When your heart is broken, when your hope is dim, when you feel forsaken, when fear has captured your heart, when his presence feels distant, Psalm 13 is good place to go. Poems for Psalms (Another addition to “The Poetry Project”) Suggested by Psalm 13 Where is the Welcoming Light? … More When God Doesn’t Listen
Thursday is for Discipleship (The following are excerpted from Bill Hull, The Disciple Making Pastor, p.12-15, bold emphasis added.) “The condition of the heart, … determines the body’s ability to function normally.” “The evangelical church has lost the will to ask the right questions and the courage to face the answers. The critical decision facing … More For The Pastor Who is Serious About Making Disciples
