It's Like Herding Cats

Okay, I read ahead. I'm teaching tonight out of Hebrews 9, but I kept going all the way through the rest of the book. It's that good...

Had a great day at New Hope Sunday. I was excited because I was going to get to teach our Kidmo kids about loss and God's answer to th...

My friend who I've never met in person but have admired for years, Marty Duren, has written what for him is a very rare post about some...

And no, I don't think I'll ever be THAT bad. :)

“The point is.. all the effort to fix the church misses the point. You can build the perfect church–and they still won’t come. People are no...

It's easy to dismiss the smaller church today. The rise of the mega church, not just the big church - these are small cities - grabs all...

The whole framework today was to create a place for people to contemplate the transcendent nature of God and how accessible he is through Je...

One of the guys in an online pastors forum has asked the question today and I think it deserves a larger audience for reflection, so I'...

Great feeling after the "Movies in the Park" outreach last night as all the Newhopians might have been a little tired, but it was...

As you read what's happening at the annual Southern Baptist Convention, held this year in Indianapolis, Indiana, try to remember the mes...

Love cannot exist in isolation: away from others love bloats into pride. Grace cannot be received privately; cut off from others it is perve...

Once upon a time it seemed to me that all a Southern Baptist church had to do was to follow the program and things would move along very smo...

It's late Sunday evening, and I'm about to follow my wife to bed and call it a day. It's been a full one. But like most of the p...

New Hope had a business meeting tonight to discuss the plans our local Baptist Association has for building on the lot next door. We talked ...

Originally, I had planned on continuing the "Blind Spots" series. We formed the music set expecting that to be the case. Then at t...

A couple of nights ago, I was looking for something to read that didn't have to do with the church, or theology. My life is so centered ...

I want the works I want the whole works Presents and prizes and sweets and surprises Of all shapes and sizes And now Don't care how I wa...

When I was a child growing up in Macon Georgia, our family used to go downtown every year to watch the Christmas parade. I can remember vivi...

Clarity. Movement. Alignment. Focus. Those are the hallmarks of the Tao(Way) of Simple Church. When I read the book a few months ago, I actu...

It was Spring Break weekend and I had been braced for at least a 20% drop in attendance this Sunday in worship. But lo and behold, some peop...