Why plant a church? Why plant a church in the Bible Belt? Why plant a church when there are already so many churches? Do we really need more churches? In this post, I want to explain the thinking behind church planting that helped to convince me of its ongoing need today in America. Misunderstandings For […]
The Power of Rituals, Habits, and Sacraments
HUMAN RITES (Audiobook)The Power of Rituals, Habits, and SacramentsBy Dru JohnsonNarrated by Trevor JohnsonCourtesy of Eerdmans How might your everyday, never-think-twice-about routines be shaping and forming you, for good or bad? Dru Johnson invites us to consider this question. In Human Rites, Johnson explores how our schedules and smart phones, sacraments and training, all work […]
Confronting Christianity
CONFRONTING CHRISTIANITY12 Hard Questions for the World’s Largest ReligionBy Rebecca McLaughlin In Confronting Christianity, McLaughlin takes on some of the toughest modern objections to Christianity with care and concision. She tackles these questions, a chapter at a time: Aren’t we better off without religion? Doesn’t Christianity crush diversity? How can you say there is only […]
Our Current Lives Matter
Because Christ is risen, our current lives matter. The Apostle Paul goes into great detail about the resurrection of the dead in his first letter to the Corinthians, chapter 15. Listen to how he concludes that discussion. Starting in verse 54: “[54] When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, […]
Sample’s 70/30 Formula for Leadership
Time management gurus stress the importance of putting the boulders in your schedule first. You must prioritize the key actions and items of your life. But does this strategy ever free us from all the details that so often follow? Can we delegate all the little stuff away? I don’t think so. Leadership necessarily involves dealing with minutiae […]
Matter Matters
Because Christ is risen, matter matters. The resurrection says something very unique about matter, that is, the physical world around us. Now, typically, there are two extremes when it comes to how we view matter. On the one side of the spectrum is an atheistic, materialistic view that says there is only matter. Ironically, this […]