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Archive for April, 2008

MISSIONAL

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

I have been working my way through Ed Stetzer’s compendium of information under the heading “The Meanings of Missional.” You can check it out at edstetzer.com.  I pasted it into a word document to read offline and it came to about 40 pages.Ed is arguably Southern Baptist’s leading thinker regarding missional understanding.  I will gladly […]

Ministry of Late

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

This has been likely my most busy semester preaching ever.  Lots of churches, colleges and universities, evangelism conferences and youth events, from a little church in NC to Harvard in Boston.  I am this weekend in Brandon, Florida (near Tampa for you non-Floridians).  This weekend is different. I am doing eight DNows and a variety […]

The Great Commission Resurgence

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Adjunctive Ministry–Communicating Encouragement

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

he summer after I finished college I spent most of June through August preaching revival meetings across the state of Alabama. I traveled with a very gifted young singer. He certainly sang better than I preached! We held meetings from Sunday night to Wednesday night, then Thursday night through Sunday morning. Pretty tiring even for […]

Time

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
Abraham Lincoln
 Today I turned 49.  Such a nondescript year, the penultimate year before the big 5-0. This year at one level means just one more day on the calendar. But I believe birthdays give us […]