The Parable of the Church Planter (or, “Why I’ve Been Angry With God”)
There’s an old story about a man who is asked by God to push against a large rock. God tells him this is important work, this rock-pushing. He asks the
There’s an old story about a man who is asked by God to push against a large rock. God tells him this is important work, this rock-pushing. He asks the
This week, I’ve been attending and being renewed at the New Room Conference, hosted by Seedbed (the publishing house of Asbury Seminary). It has been a great gift to hear
Our church has been in a season of remarkable transition in the last year or so — a season of trusting and waiting and listening and deepening. Change is not
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. –
Malcolm Gladwell has written a book called Blink, about the thousand decisions we make every day in the smallest slices of time — choices we make in split-seconds during a
“I tell you these things that my joy might be in you, so that your joy might be full.” – Jesus (John 15:11) Did you ever run across the old
When you’ve seen one, the next one becomes easier to spot. That’s how C. S. Lewis begins to describe (in his seminal work, Mere Christianity) a new kind of person —