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 my life,” I replied. Well, she knew better. But when E. M. Bounds said that it takes 20 years for a preacher to prepare a … →

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 has a sense of humor-look in the mirror! If that just made you made, you just proved my first point . But there is a … →

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 1661, which spread across the region and incited many to spiritual renewal. 3. A.H. Francke, who would become a theology professor at the University of … →