Apr 1st, 2010
Spurgeon’s Advice in Preparing for Easter
From Lectures to my Students, advice that I pray all my brothers in ministry will hear with me as we prepare to preach this Sunday: Of all I would wish to say this is the sum; my brethren, preach CHRIST, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our [...]
Mar 30th, 2010
Rework: Start Making Something
As promised last week, I’m going to keep working through a few of my favorite chapters in Rework – a great new book that takes a pretty down-to-earth look at startups. I’m reading through the lenses of my own context – specifically starting new churches. The next chapter I want to highlight was only one page [...]
Mar 25th, 2010
Great Church Promo Video – Check it
Every wondered what it would be like if a church did promotion without a lot of hype and focused more on the Gospel than selling their church? It would probably look a lot like this: Grace Community Church is a church plant in the heart of San Antonio, TX that I’ve followed for awhile. They meet [...]
Mar 25th, 2010
GO READ: The God of the Mundane
A friend of mine, Matt Redmond (not to be confused with Matt Redman, the worship leader), wrote a great post today that is worth the time to consider. Matt and I share a common love for the writings of Eugene Peterson, and Peterson’s fingerprints are all over this post. Peterson is the first one (and really, [...]
Mar 24th, 2010
Workaholism Doesn’t Make You A Hero
Last week, I read through a new book called Rework by the guys who are behind 37Signals, a great software company that produces some really helpful applications. The book is a short, easy to read, and on-the-ground-practical look at what it takes to do a start-up that works. Now, while starting a church and starting a [...]
Mar 12th, 2010
GO READ: Crucifying the American Dream
My friend Jared Wilson has a fantastic post today that gives a lot of good food for thought over the weekend. Let me encourage you to really read this and consider it. Don’t dismiss it. Don’t wave it away as something for “those really spiritual people”. What if this is actually true for you and [...]
Mar 11th, 2010
Excuse Me While I Geek Out
Ok, I know this dropped a couple days ago and I’m a little late in posting it – but oh. my. goodness. I watched Tron as a kid with my dad, and while I wasn’t old enough to completely understand it all I knew it was pretty stinking awesome. In the youth room of my church [...]
Mar 10th, 2010
Taking the Long View
A few years ago I read A Narrative of Suprising Conversions by Jonathan Edwards, and there is one particular paragraph that God used to shape and change my heart. In this paragraph, Edwards is talking about his grandfather, Solomon Stoddard, who preceded Edwards as pastor of his church. Listen to how Edwards describes him: He was eminent [...]
Mar 8th, 2010
Unhappy Hipsters
I’ve been sick since Thursday night with what was diagnosed yesterday as a sinus infection and Strep. My head isn’t super clear right now and I’m doing good to simply be upright and not in bed at this point. All the to say, I’ll be blogging more soon but want to update with two quick [...]
Mar 5th, 2010
UPDATE: What I Actually Meant
So, two days ago I wrote a short blog post that ended up getting linked to, tweeted, and passed along – bringing about 40x the normal amount of readers to my blog. The post struck a nerve, it seems. But it was misunderstood by many, and because of that I need to clarify a [...]
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