Tuesday is for Heart Songs I was sitting with a fellow leader in the church talking about ministry. Specifically, our strategy of up-stream vs down stream ministries. Downstream ministries are reactive, up-stream ministries are proactive. The subject of getting men involved in discipling their families came up. “How do you deal with men who say … More 5 Strategies for Involving Non-Reading-Men in Discipleship
I have a personal goal to reread every C.S. Lewis book on my shelf in 2014-15. A second project is to edit an index to each book that is missing one. (Secret pet peeve: I have an extreme dislike for books without indexes.) I am working on preparing a Scripture index for the same … More Index for Letters to Malcolm (Indulging My Inner Geek)
The following is an excerpt from chapter 5 of the book Picking a President: Or Any Other Elected Official. As mid-term elections begin to take shape around the nation, I thought it might be a good short reflection on the need to take seriously our duty to vote. A One-Vote Oddity Did One Vote Make … More Did One Vote Make it Possible to Win World War II?
Monday is for Discussion “Everybody knows, that with the right personality, the right music, the right location, and the right schedule you can grow a church without anybody really knowing what doctrinal commitments sustain it, if any.” Which is why John Piper writes, “. . . the older I get, the less impressed I am … More Truth-Based Worship
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)
