Weekend Musings “The church can preach salvation and nurture the saved, but it cannot save. The church can preach, exhort, rebuke, and admonish against sin, it can proclaim the forgiveness of sin and it can give theological definition to sin, but the church cannot atone for sin.” —R.C. Sproul Who is Jesus? (Crucial Questions Series) … More What the Church Can and Can’t Do
Weekend Links Some great videos and articles below. You will find help for your spirit, wisdom for your preaching, challenge for your thinking, and hope and direction for your present. You won’t find an endorsement from me of everything that is said. Remember to pray for the victims of the Connecticut murderer. And pray for our … More Ayn Rand no hero; Union Thugs; Dennis Miller; Divided Politics not Bad; Myth Liberals have Created;
Friday is for Book Updates Crossbooks, my publisher, contacted me and said they wanted to Feature my book in an upcoming newsletter. Below is a copy of the interview questions and my answers. Pray that the book reaches many more people as a result of the process. CrossBooks Featured Author Questionnaire Picking a President is … More Picking a President Book picked to be be featured in Crossbooks Publishing Newsletter
If you missed my son on NPR this afternoon, you can hear a replay at Midnight. His poem will be at 12:09 AM, third poem in the set. Here’s the link: http://hppr.org/programs/genre/entertainment. Click on the “Listen Live” button in the upper left-hand side of your screen. The show is called Open Range and is part of … More Poets Use Words to Destroy Vision So Eyes See New Things
Phil Gioja from Center Street Productions shot and edited a new book trailer for the book Picking a President: Or any other elected official. There is also a first review of the Kindle edition on Amazon.com I am asking all of my friends, all of my readers to try to make this book trailer hard not to … More Book Trailer Released for Picking a President
Weekend Musings It has been exciting to see the rise and fall and rise again of my new book on the Amazon book rankings. I don’t know how many copies have actually been sold yet but it is encouraging to know that both the paperback and the kindle edition of Picking a President: Or Any … More An Exhortation to My Readers (and a request)
Monday Discussion One of the great disappointments of any gathering of pastors is how much of the discussion around our tables, at our conferences, ministerials and seminars revolves around trivialities. We talk more about systems and programs, size of churches, staff hires, staff departures, grumblers and controllers, elders and deacons, ministry structures, what my friend … More The Discussion We Need to Have with Pastors
Four book recommendations and lots of links to stimulate your thinking. As always, you know the drill … I don’t agree with everything in the links, but I think they are all worthy of a hearing. Growing as a Leader Finding Freedom While Developing Young Leaders (Leadership Freak) Review of Ray Comfort’s New Film (Justin … More Surviving Sharks; Exposing Humility; Developing Leaders and the Doctrine of the Trinity
Book Review Title of Book: The Sky is Falling: Leaders Lost in Transition, Alan Roxburgh, (Eagle, Iowa: ACI Publishing, 2005.) Overview: Roxburgh’s thesis is that gate-keeper leaders are being lost in the transition to a new era in the church and culture. They, what he calls, ‘the Liminals’, have a growing sense that the world … More Brief Review of Alan Roxburgh’s “The Sky is Falling: Leaders Lost in Transition”
Friday Musings Title of Book: The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations, by Ori Brafman, (Portfolio, 2006) Overview: The book is about “what happens when no one is in charge” (p.5). It is about empowering people by eliminating hierarchies that stifle personal responsibility and initiative. It is about the counter-intuitive notion … More Brief Review of The Starfish and the Spider by Ori Brafman
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