Archive for November, 2006

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the first date with my wife of almost 28 years, Michelle. Thirty years ago she went with me to a concert. Thirty years and a few days ago I asked her to go with me to the concert. I was sure she would say no. I was pretty much [...]

The guys and I were on the road to a camp this summer when I tried (feeling my advancing age) an “anti-aging bar.” Hope you enjoy the video more than I did the bar.

On a cold January night in 1986 I walked down a sidewalk in Fort Worth, Texas, with a group of young men who stood at a turning point in all of our lives. We were concluding our final preparation for the entrance exam to pursue the PhD at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. All the guys [...]

And here is the video I showed just before I spoke today.

I had the great honor of speaking in chapel at SEBTS today. Here is the video.

I am thrilled, humbled, and honored to announce the release of the Evangelism Handbook: Biblical, Spiritual, Intentional, Missional (B&H) is only days away (October 1). “Dad, how long did it take you to write a book 485 pages long,“ my sixteen year old Hannah asked the other day. “It took me all 50 years of [...]

Over many years of traveling I have observed two marks of church people I see far too consistently (especially too often in leaders!). First, we tend to take ourselves too seriously. We get our feelings hurt too easily, we cannot take a joke, and we think our views are more important than they are. God [...]

If you know much about the history of the church and key turning points in that history, you will recognize the following: 1. Martin Luther nailed the 95 Theses on the door at Wittenberg in 1517, starting a Reformation. 2. Philip Spener, pastor-leader in the Pietist awakening, began his small group “exercises of piety” in [...]

This week we had Aaron Coe from Gallery Church Manhattan on campus. I love Aaron and his team for their great heart for the most influential city on the earth. A few thoughts about the cities: -For the first time in history the world is over 50% urban; -In the U.S. according to a NAMB [...]