I stayed off the Interstates and took the back-roads and highways all the way up to Minnesota for the Desiring God Conference. I met Timmy Brister half way up and we stopped to shoot some pictures along the way. I will be uploading them to Flickr as time allows.
Tonight at the conference we heard from [...]
I am leaving for the Desiring God Conference on Friday. I know I’ll be hanging with some friends from Grace, and Marc and Timmy. Anyone else going?
Well, if you have some time to play a game and like movies run over to darkjustgotfun.com.
M&M is celebrating the dark chocolate version of their popular candy with a game that tests your knowledge of dark films. Check out the painting, zoom in, scroll around, and guess what dark movies (not necessarily horror movies) lie [...]
Yep, another Friday Photo. No time for blogging or photography this week, so I am preaching into the recent past; a trip downtown. Both pics are of the El.
Check out Steve’s Friday Photo, and all the pics at the Friday Photo Flickr Group
Too busy to make time to read the classics? Check out Daily Lit. Pick out a classic you would like to read, John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress for example, and Daily Lit will email the book to you in small, successive pieces (about five minutes worth of reading each email.) They divide Pilgrim’s Progress into 80 [...]
How do you get the word out about your church: Yellow Pages, newspaper, direct mail, door-to-door, street preaching, block-party, service projects? Most churches want their communities to know they exist and get a certain impression of them. We covered some of this in Basic Training and the Nehemiah Project of the SBC, but I want [...]
With all the discussion about a pastor’s sermon preparation and preaching, I thought I would throw out a quote from another pastor, and then give a few relevant book recommendations. The quote is from Thomas Murphey, a Princeton Theological Seminary grad. and Presbyterian minister from the nineteenth century. His book, Pastoral Theology is a great [...]
Two for the weekend. The first is of a sign at a liquor store down the street from my house. Obviously I am not promoting the beer advertised on the sign (Strohs?!) The second is a picture for my wife. She rarely sees me dressed up.
Be sure to check out Steve’s Friday Photo, and the [...]
Yesterday I read Steve Sjogren’s article encouraging pastors to spend less time preparing to preach their own messages, and to simply repackage the sermons of other, more popular pastors. Ray Van Neste responded with biblical bewilderment and took on the ideas of pride and performance. I asked what some of you thought and the response [...]
I have heard of churches/gatherings who creatively read old sermons as the preaching for their services. Everyone knows this is not original material, and they happen to enjoy going through classic sermons. This was done in a couple of churches that were without a pastor, but wanted to be fed. I’m cool with that.
I have [...]