Is Confidence Necessary For Ministry?
Yogi Berra was correct about baseball when he said “90% of the game is half mental”. You can tell quite a bit about how a pitcher is going to pitch on that day by his body posture on the mound. If he...
View ArticleBlinders or Breadcrumbs?
I suppose we should celebrate the fact that “fake news” is all the rage these days. I say this because saying that something is “fake” implies that there might be something that is authentic. And I...
View ArticleAfter a Man Travels to The Furthest Reaches of the Known World He Had This to...
I suppose that’d be the click-bait title if we had the internet during the time of Adoniram Judson. I love this little story I found tucked away in a Spurgeon sermon. Judson was one of the early...
View ArticleThat Time I Was a Minnesota Twins Fan
The last week of the 2014 MLB season was an exciting one for me. Going into the last week of the season I knew that my beloved KC Royals could either be out of the playoffs, win the division, get a...
View ArticleDoes 2 Corinthians 6:14 mean A Christian Shouldn’t Date an Unbeliever?
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? –2 Corinthians 6:14 As a youth pastor this was a pretty...
View ArticleOne Reason We Struggle with Evangelism
I’ve been slowly working my way through the works of Francis Schaeffer. What I read this morning was deeply convicting. Schaeffer was discussing his strategy of “taking the roof off” the lives of...
View ArticleWhat You Call Soft I’d Call Pastoral Acts 17 Strategy
Christianity Today (CT) published an article a few days ago which seemed to be an attempt to open the conversation on how we will pastorally relate to polyamory. In the article the authors give a quick...
View ArticleThe Narcissism of Small Differences & the SBC
“I am not being melodramatic when I say that people from Eagleton are snobby and evil and would most likely exterminate everybody who isn’t from Eagleton if they weren’t so busy being obsessed with...
View ArticleThe Relationship Between Mission and Solitude
And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed. –Mark 1:35 If Mark wanted to tell us that Jesus got up early to pray...
View ArticleAbout Those Sparrows
Why should I feel discouraged,Why should the shadows come,Why should my heart be lonely,And long for heaven, heaven and home,When, when Jesus is my portion,My constant Friend is He;Oh, oh-oh, his eye...
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