Lecrae (via twitter) asks:
What are 3-4 books/authors that have heavily influenced you or that you’d recommend? Don’t hold back, I wanna know.
My response would have taken 10 tweets.
Since I own a blog, I will use it and then respond with a link back.
Since I am about all things pastoring and preaching, here are the books/sets [...]
We ask Jesus Christ to be our Lord and Saviour not only because He offered this free gift but He is the only One who can.
Ruth and Boaz at the Threshing Floor
1 Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?
This [...]
I had to specify because I didn’t want to get a list of a bunch of pastors. Not that there is anything wrong with that but what I am looking for are teachers who are called to the teach the word of God. Those preachers who do expository preaching or going through book by book, [...]
Recently, God placed upon my heart to fire up a Bible Study group. You know, a group of people that would actually study the Bible.
Foreign concept, I know. Stay with me.
Upon that, one of the immediate questions that I had to answer is how do we go about studying the bible as group? Do we [...]
(Thanks to Recovering Pharisee for tuning me in to this CNN article.)
And so the 53-year-old accountant from the Tampa, Florida, area pledged $500 a year to Joyce Meyer, the evangelist whose frank talk about recovering from childhood sexual abuse was so inspirational. She wrote checks to flamboyant faith healer Benny Hinn and a local preacher-made-good, [...]
From the archives of Out Of Ur (of Leadership magazine):
October 18, 2007
Willow Creek Repents?
Why the most influential church in America now says “We made a mistake.”
Few would disagree that Willow Creek Community Church has been one of the most influential churches in America over the last thirty years. Willow, through its association, has promoted a [...]
Back home after total hip replacement surgery and four months of physical therapy, my grandmother returned home Friday morning. I took my son and spent the day with her all day Saturday ending the day by test driving her new hip out to my church, Gateway Church in Southlake, TX with Pastor Robert Morris. In [...]
I was incredibly moved by Matt Chandler’s sermon (of The Village Church, Highland Village, TX) last weekend entitled “The Role of Men: Part 1; Defining Masculinity”.
What jumped out at me was the very last portion of the sermon (forgive me, the transcript hasn’t been released so I have to paraphrase just a tad):
“If I am [...]
If you are at all familiar with my blog, then the title should not throw you for a loop. Because of the vastness of my music collection, I will occasionally be inspired to use a song title as a fast and easy way to headline my posts. Unfortunately, I cannot take credit for this blog [...]