From the monthly archives:

September 2006

DG Con: 1

September 30, 2006

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 [...]

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Desiring God Con

September 27, 2006

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?

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Dark Just Got Fun

September 23, 2006

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) [...]

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Daily Lit

September 18, 2006

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 [...]

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Getting the Word Out?

September 18, 2006

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 [...]

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Sermon Preparation

September 15, 2006

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 [...]

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Preaching Worth Hearing 2

September 14, 2006

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 [...]

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