Note: the following is excerpted from my new ebook ReVITALize Your Church Through Gospel Recovery. Available for 2.99 for Amazon Kindle HERE. Print copies coming soon. I cut my evangelistic teeth as a personal witness in an era of what I call “presentational” evangelism. By presentational evangelism I mean an approach that focused on the [...]

“Christianity has not so much been tried and found wanting, as it has been found difficult and left untried.” G. K. Chesterton
 “Then He said to [them] all, ‘If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Me.’” Luke 9:23 “Discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness.” [...]

In 24 days my new book As You Go: Creating a Missional Culture of Gospel-Centered Students will hit the shelves (though you can preorder print copies here and a kindle book here). From my discussions with leaders it appears this will be the first intentionally gospel-centered student ministry book. In it I simply argue that [...]

This Monday I released a new ebook called ReVITALize Your Church Through Gospel Recovery. And, today I have a revitalized blog, a simple, clean, old school look I like because of its simplicity. We have so much buzz, bling, and busyness today that we can easily get distracted by the noise around us.  I want [...]

I often ask my students how many of them made a profession of faith and/or were baptized, only to realize later they truly met Christ after that early experience. The numbers vary somewhere between a third to two-thirds from class to class. Pastor J.D. Greear has tackled this sometimes dicey subject in his excellent new [...]