I know most of you are totally uninterested in the upcoming John 3:16 Conference or addressing Dr. Steve Lemke’s egregious errors, but I felt that it was important to make the previous posts readily accessible to anyone who would like to read my interaction and responses to Lemke’s ...
A couple of months ago, I shared a brief critique on church planting movements while advocating a “word-driven movemental Christianity“. Because of our church’s new church planting initiative, I have been living in the book of Acts quite a bit, which has been rather ...
Too Busy Not to Evangelize? (Part 1) Twenty years ago, Bill Hybels wrote a book entitled Too Busy Not To Pray: Slowing Down to Be with God. Over one million copies of this book has been sold to a bustling people reminding them that they needed to cultivate a prayer life by slowing ...
A couple of weeks ago, I had a friendly discussion (see comments) with Ed Stetzer shared a little of his presentation of “Movemental Christianity.” The title really resonated with me as I have been spending a lot of time in Acts and considering the movement of the early church as ...
NOTE: After having printed out the sections of Scripture, I realized that the margins were a bit wide (they could work if you cut the pieces of paper really tight). I went and updated the margins and made necessary adjustments to make the text fit more comfortably in the moleskine. ...
A couple of weeks ago I shared with you my thoughts on the gospel and the SBC, and in light of those thoughts, I want to point you to what Ed Stetzer has just announced: the Southern Baptist Convention is in decline. Now there any number of ways to spin this reality, and no doubt you are going ...
Nathan Finn asked the question over at SBC Witness: “What are the most pressing issues facing the Southern Baptist Convention?“ I responded, The most pressing issue facing the SBC in 2008 is the gospel. The one thing that precludes cooperation is (unfortunately) the ...
While I realize that this post is long overdue, I suppose it is better late than never. I want to take a moment to share with you a strategy or paradigm of sorts that I have used in seeking to invest myself in the mission God has given me in my workplace. Recognizing that this is something I ...