As a Lover or Theorist? – Reading the Bible
How do you read your Bible – as a theorist or lover? First and foremost, as a student/scholar or a eager pursuer? Chris Webb, President of Renovare, challenged me recently to rethink how I read my...
View ArticleThe Following Leader
I have come to a big decision. The title of my blog is changing as of right now! It is changing because I am changing and recognizing that there is a great need in the church today to redefine...
View ArticleTheology and Waffles!
My daughter was excited. Driving home from work with dad several years ago, my 4-year-old was eager to tell me of her joy. “I’m so excited, Dad. ‘Know why?” “No, Sweetheart. Why?” “’Cuz Papa and Granma...
View ArticleIt Can Shut You Down … If You Let It.
The best “insurance policy” you can have to guard you from discouragement is friendship. Discouragement pulls us away from the thing we need most in life – relationships and friendships. When...
View ArticleElephant-Hunting in 2013.
When an elephant is in the room, hunt him down … but be careful and be prayerful. We have all experienced those times in discussions with our friends over coffee or over the phone where the...
View ArticleMy Favorite Dorothy Sayers Quote.
The Quote: “The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore – on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to...
View ArticleThe #1 Essential for Your Ministry Team.
Trust is probably the most oft-mentioned and common ingredient within great ministry teams. Experts from all fields of team building agree on this team essential. No matter what the team ingredient or...
View ArticleA Dash to Your Disney Dreams – Watch this video!
This young man will dash your “Disney Dreams”! Give it a look and let me know what you think. Have we been fed a set of pipe dreams by Disney? And, has it contributed to the Millennial Generation being...
View ArticleGetting Through YOUR Gethsemanes.
Watching a 3-D movie without 3-D glasses is a bland and boring experience. Looking at your life through the wrong lens can be the same way. Without the proper lens, the picture is flat, the colors...
View ArticleThe Circles Jesus Drew
As churches endeavor to find more effective and fulfilling ways to engage people in ministry, the team approach is one that also fits the renewed clamoring for community within churches today. Such an...
View ArticleDoes God Need to Move … or Do I Need to See?
For years as a Pentecostal Christ-follower, I have been taught by example to pray that God would “move”, that God would “work”, and even in some cases that God would “show up” on the scene of my needs...
View ArticlePascal and Pentecostalism.
The first time I walked into a Pentecostal church as a sixteen-year-old, I didn’t know quite what to expect. Entering First Assembly of God (AG) in Columbia, South Carolina that Sunday morning in 1975,...
View Article5 Ways to Connect with God.
The Bible is a book of connections – connection with God and connection with our neighbor. It began with a man in deep and meaningful connection with God – personal, close, intimate, and consistent....
View ArticleOne Thing God Finds Irresistible.
I have often pondered the question: What does God find irresistible? In other words, what attitudes and dispositions in man is he the most drawn to? Yes, I recognize that man is basically sinful and...
View ArticleJesus & the Personality Test.
One interesting tool in team-building within any organization, including the family, is a personality assessment. My favorite is probably one of the simpler ones – the Smalley-Trent Test. In it,...
View ArticleGod’s Palette – The 8 Promises of Creation
When God took out his canvas of clay called Earth and began his paramount work of art, the angels must have been on the edge of their seats. What was God making this time? Would it look like any of his...
View ArticleC.S. Lewis’ “Secret Society”
C.S. Lewis once referred to the Church as “a sort of secret society to undermine the devil.” Instead of exploding onto the scene of a lost, dying and sinful world, he saw the people of God rather...
View ArticleWould Jesus Attend Church?
How many more minutes before the church service would be over? That’s all I could think about. Every agenda item on the scheduled liturgy was just something else I would have to endure. My mind worked...
View ArticleBilly Graham’s Warning to JFK – “Don’t Go to Dallas”
One week before President John F. Kennedy made the fateful trip to Dallas in 1963, Billy Graham “had an inner foreboding that something terrible was going to happen” to the president while there. Read...
View ArticleWhat’s “True” About You?
John was the last person you would have expected God to use. But powerfully use him, He did. Growing up in eighteenth century England, from age 11 on John worked on slave ships; the family business....
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