It's Like Herding Cats

Today, we are assuming too much. We assume the gospel. We assume our churches are healthy. We assume we are preaching biblical, Christ-ce...

One of the blogs I read frequently is written by Darryl Dash . It's hard for me to assign labels to Darryl. If I did, it would probably ...

Time was, I enjoyed writing funeral messages. I could take what I knew of the person's life and weave a story from it that seemed to hel...

A Glimpse of New Hope!: Nothing Says Welcome Like... Nothing Says Welcome Like... In the last two weeks, I've taken two trips to my home...

It's the first day of summer break for school kids here, and all of them are looking forward to a great time. Well for once, Bunny and I...

It's an old story. A traveling preacher out one night and upon entering a town stops at the door of a little home. Coming to the door wa...

Just had a visit from my favorite pastor, Arnold Hendrix. He's in a traditional Baptist church in Lower Alabama. He probably won't e...

The North Carolina evangelist Vance Havner said, "What we live is what we really believe." Exactly. One of the steps I try to make...

Why is it that during the weeks where the most pressure is applied, the clearest thoughts emerge? This week, my son is flying out to CA, I...

I'm finishing a series on the "Big Story" of the Bible this week with a look at the consummation of Christ's Kingdom. Lots...

One of the challenges those of us who are working to be missional followers of Christ and who are trying to lead our churches to be more mis...

When I'm trying to unpack the call of Jesus on a person's life, I talk a lot about "the Journey" with Him. The idea is to ...

The Church on the Corner | Love Your Neighbour The key to evangelism is to create lots of opportunities for Christians to ‘rub off’ on tho...

One of the most polarizing names a pastor can bring up among other pastors and increasingly among church members is Rick Warren. The mega-ch...

"Go big or go home" is what I heard from one pastor friend. "You've got to have a big vision" said another. My denom...

"No matter what your job is," Ortberg said, "you have an opportunity to live that out every day. Work gives you an opportunit...

Again and again over the last few weeks, God has shown me how little impact the church has on the culture. First it was Good Friday, when we...

I'm Just Saying... It's gotten to be a joke between my bride and me - my use of the phrase "I'm just saying..." as I t...

  One of the great blessings of being a pastor here is being around some of the greatest folks I have ever known - our military. If I had be...

From the comment stream after one of John Frye's excellent posts at Jesus the Radical Pastor Doug Jones wrote ... one result of this kin...