A revised and updated second edition of Liturgies for Life is now available in a Hardback Edition on Amazon. My hope is that many will find it and use it as a companion to their prayer life in the New Year. The subtitle of the book is “A Companion to a Life of Prayer.” For … More Liturgies For Life Hardback Edition
A Morning Call to Worship for a Thanksgiving Morning Do your soul a favor and start your day reading six verses to companion your morning with thoughts of Christ. Open to Psalm 90 and read verses one and two, then flip over to Ephesians 1:11-14. Remember how much you are loved by the greatest lover … More A Thanksgiving Call to Worship
An excerpt from the book, Experience the Passion of Christ. Good Friday is a day of meditation and prayer. I will be reading about the events of the last hours of Christ on the cross, thinking and praying about the messages I have given in the past and helping my grandchildren to embrace the wonder of the … More A Good Friday Meditation for Worshipers of the King
The difference between outreach and evangelism is essentially this—outreach will almost universally get you pats on the back while evangelism will eventually get you persecuted. Outreach does not replace evangelism but it can be powerfully productive as a handmaid to evangelism OR an excuse for not doing evangelism. It can be the cowards way of … More “What is ‘Outreach'”?
I have written about this theme before, here, and here, and in a small book, here and in numerous other places over the years. But I expect to spend the rest of my life exploring and discovering new pictures of faithful cross-shaped ministry. So it was encouraging to find the following story in my reading today … More What Does a Cross-Shaped Life Look Like?
Very Excited about the New Book Release A pastor writes books because he is seeking to shoot an arrow to make a difference at some distance from his normal sphere of influence. That is my hope with this short (60 page) booklet. It is encouraging to hear that advance reviewers are seeing some benefit. Please … More More Advance Reviews on the New Book
Christians Have Pickled Themselves in the American Dream. Here are ten reasons why I wrote Settlers or Sojourners? It will be available on Kindle first (in about two weeks) and paperback next month. It ‘s a book to shake us out of our nesting instincts and inflame the passions of an adventurer.
Update: Book is now available in both Kindle and Paperback. Coming soon. This is an unedited mock-up of the new book(let). Originally written as a lecture for a symposium on multi-ethnic ministry and then serialized on my blog, it has been re-edited and slightly expanded in this 60 page booklet. Available now in Kindle and … More New Book Release Coming
Two years ago Picking a President: Or Any other Elected Official was released. Still thankful for the work of Phil Gioja in putting together the book trailer. If you are looking for a . . . a devotional commentary on the book of Proverbs a study on leadership from Proverbs a help in thinking about … More Two Year Anniversary of My Last Book (But hopefully not my last)
Weekend Musings Can unbelievers understand the New Testament? Can they read its pages, see the portrayal of Christ in the gospels and the early correspondence of the Church and not see that extraordinary claims are made for the person of Christ? Can they fail to see that he claimed to be be God in the … More Jesus is God: So What? —Putting Jesus in His Place
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