Risk

 
For the past two weeks, I have been re-reading Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper. This morning I began chapter 5 which is titled Risk Is Right. For some reason the content of this chapter did not resonate with me the first time I read through it. It could be because the first time [...]

Inquiring Minds Want to Know

How do you trap a squirrel? In our area they are more commonly known as tree rats or them !@#$%^ squirrels. I personally don’t have any problems with squirrels. But there are some out there that do. So to those who struggle with these varmints of provocation I have posted a tutorial  from Abraham Piper’s blog on [...]

Are You Fully Invested?

Coaching kids has taught me a lot about parenting.  Many people love their kids and are involved in their lives.  You can see how good it is for these kids to have parents who show up and are interested in them.  But coaching has also shown me that too many parents are more interested in [...]

Divided?

Below is a quote from Eugene Peterson, author of the Message, the Message Remix, and many other books, speaking with Laity Lodge about distinctions we have put between laity and clergy. The video interview can be found at thehighcalling.org.
I went through a list of people the other day of who have influenced me the most.  [...]

Building Healthy Churches part 4

Greg Gilbert of 9marks ministries and Capital Hill Baptist Church gae the fourth message in the conference on Building Healthy Churches. HIs topic was church membership & church discipline. To be honest I wasn’t too thrilled to hear about church membership as I was to hear about church discipline. Much too my surprise I was [...]

Tunes for Tuesday

I get criticized for my musical taste, so I respond by giving more and more of my preferences!
The Awesome Avett Brothers

A little of Feist’ “Honey Honey”…

Leading the Small Church

Last year in school, I had a class on “Shepherding the Small Church”. Our main text was a book by the same title written by Glenn Daman. It was one of my favorite classes by far, because of the practical information and guidelines of how to learn who your congregation is and how to best [...]

The Need for Degree?

As read on adrianwarnock.com this morning.
  From Martin Lloyd Jones:

What foolish creatures we are! Many of us are not interested in doctrine at all; we are lazy Christians who do not read, do not think, and do not try to delve into the mysteries.
We have had a certain experience and we desire no more. Others of us, [...]

WWJD?

What would Jesus do? Certainly not this:

When will “we” learn that this speaks against us Christians more than it changes the minds of those who are not like-minded.

Building Healthy Churches part 3

As I write this the complete audio of all sessions of the Building Healthy Churches workshop can now be downloaded here.
Mark Dever kicked off the third seminar on the gospel, conversion, and evangelism, with a warning instruction to all pastors:
” Do not assume that these three areas are ok or understood in your congregation. The Gospel, [...]