I found my sermon for this week on YouTube
Today, by Rob Bell…
Leadership v. Management
I serendipitously arrived at an essay by Jay Gary, a PhD candidate in the Regent University program in Organizational Leadership. One of the paragraphs jumped out at me: Rost claims management is built around authority relationships, while leadership is built [...]
The brake and the accelerator
When I was learning how to drive a car in the dark ages of 1963 I was taught to take my foot off the accelerator when I applied the brakes. Frequently this was accompanied by pressing down on the clutch [...]
I found my easter sermon here today…
I found my easter sermon here today, thanks to Sheryl Bane at Peanut Butter and Jelly Boats.
Bob Hyatt interviews Doug Pagitt for Next-Wave
On the eve of publication of Doug Pagitt’s new book, A Christianity Worth Believing, Doug and Bob Hyatt sat down at the National Pastors’ Convention for a chat about how Doug thinks of his critics, about pressure from the left [...]
Struggling for connection
Are people really struggling to make connections? Is "authentic" community as big a deal as church leaders make it out to be? My friend Scott Bane is talking about these issues on his blog. These days I have some extra [...]
The time changed…
The time changed yesterday and I didn’t even notice it. I used to have alarm clocks, clock radios and such and with every time change I had to figure out how to change the clock. Now, I use my cell [...]
The power and possibility of repentance
One of my favorite mentors used to say something like, "It’s time to get born again, again!" There is something powerful about that idea. The idea that we can choose to turn our lives around, to surrender once again to [...]
Ed Stetzer: Contend, Contextualize, Cooperate
Ed Stetzer brings it at the Southern Baptist Convention and gives an excellent example of contextualization, preaching with all of the fire and passion that is expected from a Baptist preacher. His message? Get missional. This is really, really good.
