Preaching Points: The Amateur Preacher
Do not confuse an amateur with someone who's well experienced in a particular craft; rather, being an amateur simply means loving what you do.
The Shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary
Our nation and its pastors and churches respond to the tragedy at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.
Preaching Points: The Two Texts of Preaching
Preaching is two-way communication between what the biblical text has to say to us and how our congregation will interpret what we tell them in a sermon.
Learning the Seasons of the Soul
Time is important to us. When you were in school, you spent a lot of time trying to learn how to tell time. Now, a lot of you are at a disadvantage because you've grown up in the digital age and clocks tell you what time it is. Your watch will beep; a digital voice will call out the hour. You don't have to tell time. The time tells you.
A Church Where People Come to Know Christ
Why can we talk so easily about church, and yet we don't know what to say about Jesus?
It’s About Time (Luke 12:35-40)
Anyone who knows me knows I have a hard time managing my time. It's not that I don't have all the tools I'm supposed to have. I've been to all the workshops. I have all the gadgets. It's just that I'm a spur-of-the-moment kind of guy.
Doing Church In Babel
Recently I started reading through the Bible again. Like most Christians, I undertake this spiritual practice from time to time. Starting in Genesis and plowing through to the last "amen" in Revelation gives me a fresh perspective on the vastness of God's salvation plan and the...
You Just Got to Love ‘Em
You Just Got to Love 'Em
Dr. Clyde Francisco was teaching his Old Testament Survey class at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary when he hesitated over the story of Elisha calling bears to attack some young men who were taunting the prophet (2 Kings 2:23-25)