Today’s guest post comes to us from David S. Dockery for Baptist Press News. David is the president of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. Earlier this week I heard the news that Charles Caldwell Ryrie, well-known evangelical and baptistic theologian and longtime faculty member at Dallas Theological Seminary, had passed from this life into the presence of Christ (Philippians … Read More
Spurgeon on God’s Army
“The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.” – Charles Spurgeon
Full House, Powerful Talks – LIVE from the Renegade Pastors Conference
Here in Orlando, I’ve been honored to spend three days leading the Renegade Pastors Conference, with over 250 pastors from every area of the country and even outside the US. And what have we been focusing on? Ways to abandon average in life and ministry — from facing your fear of criticism head-on to taking time to replenish your own soul. Just some of the content … Read More
LIVE from Orlando – Best Tweets @ the Renegade Pastors Conference
I’m writing to you in the middle of our BIGGEST 3-day Renegade Pastors Conference yet! Over 250 pastors have descended upon sunny Walt Disney World, Orlando to join me and and all-star line-up of speakers, including Dr. Thom Rainer and Lance Witt. And a few have been tweeting live from the conference because in addition to the great sessions, this … Read More
Avoiding Burnout
Today’s guest blog comes to us from Matt Perman for Christianity Today/Leadership Journal. Matt is former director of strategy at Desiring God and is author of the new book What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way. I know a pastor whose congregation expected him to treat his email like the phone, constantly monitoring it and responding immediately whenever something … Read More
Evangelism Requires Committed Leaders – A Saturday Quote
“Followers must have leaders, and this means that before much can be done with the church membership something will have to be done with the church officials.” ― Robert E. Coleman, The Master Plan of Evangelism (book)
McGavran Monday – People Movements
In honor of Dr. Gary McIntosh’s new biography of Donald McGavran, here’s today’s Monday moment: “If there are ways to make disciples of panta ta ethne – all nations – without People Movements, it would be interesting to hear about them.” – Donald McGavran Secure your copy of the book at 40% OFF plus insightful bonuses here. (the above quote … Read More
On Leadership – A Saturday Quote
“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
A Saturday Quote – Right with God
“To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.” – A.W. Tozer
What’s Your Conversion Story?
For those of you who didn’t mark your calendars, yesterday was the anniversary of an interesting date in Christian history: when Charles Haddon Spurgeon, prince of preachers, was converted. On that day in 1850, at the age of 15, Spurgeon heard the voice of God calling him in the words of Isaiah 45:22 through the sermon of a Primitive Methodist … Read More