As most of you know by now, I announced Tuesday (October 2) that I have signed my first publishing contract. I have been working on a discipleship book since summer 2018 and after a number of rejections from other publishers, I received an enthusiastic yes …
Read MoreA Few Days with Eugene Peterson
Appreciate your pastoral leaders who gave you the Word of God. Take a good look at the way they live, and let their faithfulness instruct you, as well as their truthfulness. There should be a consistency that runs through us all. For Jesus doesn’t change—yesterday, …
Read MoreBeach Retreat & Text Messaging During a Sermon
Yesterday night (Sunday) I spoke at our beach retreat. Jenni, the boys, and a few of our youth went to the beach with our friends at Victory Worship Center in Americus. I talked on eating the Book (the Bible), a message that I preached in …
Read MoreEat this Book & Praying the Psalms
I am working my way through Eugene Peterson’s Eat This Book. Christianity Today gave it an Award of Merit for 2007 in the area of spirituality. Peterson is a wonderful writer and if you are going to read one book about spiritual reading (or devotional …
Read MoreSpirituality and Eugene Peterson
The internet and the blogging phenomena has opened up new doors of communication for the church. Theological dialogues are no longer held in the hollowed halls of seminaries and Christian colleges and a thesis no longer needs to be nailed to a door to start …
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