Original post can be found here. Skills vs. Talents. If you can learn it, it’s a skill. If it’s important, but innate, it’s a talent. The thing is, almost everything that matters is a skill. If even one person is able to learn it, if even one person is able to use effort and training to…
Must Every Christian Evangelize? Article 08.27.2013 Church members sometimes wonder if they should just leave evangelism to the “professionals.” After all, isn’t evangelism a spiritual gift? In this article I offer quick guide for pastors to know how to answer them. ANSWERING TWO COMMON ARGUMENTS Must every Christian evangelize? The scriptural answer is “yes.” But I…
Disciplemaking shows us our smallness and God’s bigness. Actively making disciples helps us see our lives in better proportions — not with ourselves at the center, doing the big things, but situated happily on the periphery, doing our small part in a big and glorious God-sized plan. Disciplemaking challenges us to be holistic Christians. Good…
What a great word by Dr. Chuck Lawless on specific questions to think through in order to be more intentional in your walk with Jesus in 2017! Love this! Original post can be viewed here. For years, I have set goals for the new year during the first week of December. Tomorrow is the first…
Good listening requires patience. Don’t be a “half-listener.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer says we should avoid, “a kind of listening with half an ear that presumes already to know what the other person has to say.” Ouch. Good listening is an act of love. “Poor listening rejects; good listening embraces. Poor listening diminishes others, while good listening…
Disciplemaking shows us our smallness and God’s bigness. Actively making disciples helps us see our lives in better proportions — not with ourselves at the center, doing the big things, but situated happily on the periphery, doing our small part in a big and glorious God-sized plan. Disciplemaking challenges us to be holistic Christians. Good…
Good listening requires patience. Don’t be a “half-listener.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer says we should avoid, “a kind of listening with half an ear that presumes already to know what the other person has to say.” Ouch. Good listening is an act of love. “Poor listening rejects; good listening embraces. Poor listening diminishes others, while good listening…
I’m grateful for individuals who put together 1) ideas & resources to equip parents to teach their kids the Bible, as well as 2) tips for actually doing this. I hope that you’ll take a moment to purchase one of these resources and think through how you can, by God’s grace and the work of the Spirit…
Over the past several years I’ve tried to be more intentional in thinking through the books I read. You might be asking, “for what purpose?” Plain and simple, it helps me be a better a leader, which in turn influences me as a husband, dad and pastor. You’ve heard the axiom: leaders are readers. And…
Original post can be found here. I am often asked how to know if the plans we make are God’s will for our life. I’m not referring to which cereal to have for breakfast. For the most part I think God would simply say choose your favorite (and, like a good parent, try to steer you…
Theology Along the Way 