A few years ago: Back from 8 hours with the Vernon Hills Police Department doing a ride-a-long as a part of their Citizen Police Academy class. It was a good experience. My officer was pleasant and helpful. She took the time to tell me what was going on and didn’t grow noticeable tired with all … More Solicitation, Drug Bust, Teenage Driver accosts Tree: All in a Day’s Work
I am out from 8 AM to 4 PM on a police ride-along on Saturday in the one of the target communities for the cluster of house churches we are planting. Looking forward to the day. No posts till the evening.
I have recently updated a couple of old blogs with new looks and content you might want to visit. Chosenrebel.blogspot.com is the blog I use to post articles and likes to worthy thoughts of others on the intersection of Christian worldview and political/cultural engagement. Frequent “contributors” include, Chuck Colson, Mark Easley, a host of TownHall … More News for the Politically and Culturally Engaged
Thursday is for Discipleship Earlier this week, Michael Fast visited the blog and asked this question: “Isn’t evangelism part of discipleship? It seems like your definition of discipleship is dealing with people who are already evangelized hence the move away from interacting with people farther from God and focussing on people who are already fully … More Two Words for One Biblical Term: How dissection obscures understanding.
More for Wednesday Thoughts and Prayers With the great advance of the gospel in the rest of the world through house churches, why is it that the American Church seems to be so slow to pick up on the trend? It is hard to find a more pragmatic people than citizens of the USA, so … More Why Does America Seem to Have a House Church Aversion?
Wednesday is for Prayer Before I became the pastor of Trinity Church, (and before I even knew Manchester Creek Community Church existed, or of Standing Stone Ministry) my intention was to plant a new church in the Vernon Hills/Mundelein area of IL. God changed those plans, and I don’t need to go into that here. … More Boys Night Out with Six Residents of Vernon Hills
Tuesday is for Preaching Recent survey done by Lifeway Research shows a gross lack of gospel understanding in American Churches. According to the survey results an overwhelming majority of pastors are not setting forth a clear, complete, logical and sequential presentation of the Bad News/Good News. One pastor is doing something about it. Dr. David … More Do We Need Gospel Bootcamps for Preachers?
Missional Discussion When a church is small, house church size, (whether it intends to stay small or grow to a mega church size is immaterial to this discussion) the amount of time that a pastor/shepherd can spend on evangelism, evangelism training, evangelistic praying, prayer walking, building relationships with non-Christians, etc., is great. The larger a … More How Do Pastors Forget About Evangelism?
Two great movie reviews by my young friend Tyler Saul. Read his reviews of Toy Story 3 and The Invention of Lying.
Larry Osborne titled it The Barnabas Factor: Finding and Developing Leaders It was a Thursday morning seminar option at the Evangelical Free Church National Conference. [Aside: the SBC was having their national conference the same week. On Tuesday on the day before the SBC conference started they had a pre-conference. Find David Platt’s message to … More Equipping and Empowering Leaders
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