Church Planting: Things that might help…
Chris Elrod posts about what he has learned on his church planting journey. Here’s a poignant quote: "Recent church planters are your best resource. The greatest advice, financial gifts and friendship I have ever received is from guys that planted [...]
Shimmering ripples
I was sitting in the shade while Ben and Loretta were in the clubhouse swimming pool this afternoon. The clubhouse sits on higher ground in our complex and looks out over a lake at the golf course. With the clouds [...]
“Jesus, take the wheel”
I like simple prayers. This is probably because I have a very short attention span. I have been known to knod off while others are speaking, and while I have been in the middle of praying! I confess. It is [...]
Bill Dahl publishes Porpoise Diving Life
My friend, Bill Dahl, has published The Porpoise Diving Life, the Book on the Internet. Whatever you do, don’t read it! Here are some very good reasons for not reading it: 1) Bill is not a megachurch pastor; 2) Bill [...]
Jerry Falwell, Friend of Larry Flynt
I like to read the news. As I scanned my daily LA Times email I came across this article, Larry Flynt: My friend, Jerry Falwell. Rev. Falwell is a polarizing figure, no doubt. There are times when statements he has [...]
Hoodabada(TM) Detector
I am in the midst of an intensive research and development project on a Hoodabada™ Detector. It seems like it wouldn’t be difficult. Sort of a cross between a lie detector and a spy microphone. All of the data could [...]
Falwell Dead
From the New York times obituary of Rev. Jerry Falwell: But, at his core, he remained through his career what he was at the beginning: a preacher and moralist, a believer in the Bible’s literal truth, with convictions about religious [...]
The dangers of pacificism…
Now, before you freak out and call the emergent cops on me, let me explain myself. I’m sure that none of us believe that war is a good thing. I mean the earthly kind of war, where people kill each [...]
Two items of interest…
From the LA Times: Newspaper circulation continued to decline nationwide, according to a report released Monday, but many individual publications and a trade group countered with figures showing that the papers’ audiences were growing online. From the Baptist Press: While [...]
