Books… What Business is Learning from the Church: A Review of “Brains On Fire” by Phillips, Church, Cordell, and Jones 7 Nov 20118 Nov 2011 "It comes down to trust. And people don't trust your company; people trust people. People they know. People whose opinions and recommendations they seek out and have faith in" (xiv).…
Books… Beautiful Are The Feet: A Review of “Barefoot Church” by Brandon Hatmaker 26 Sep 201127 Sep 2011 The church has a really bad habit that it needs to break immediately! We have, sadly, become an incredibly consumerist culture. That is to say the church takes, consumes, and…
Discipleship… Don Whitney on Discipleship 11 Jul 201112 Jul 2011 My relationship with Donald S. Whitney began long before I had him as a professor at Southern Seminary. As a young pastoral student I was required to read through his…
Discipleship… Our Discipleship Problem (Part 7) 6 Jul 20117 Jul 2011 With the way that much of the conversation regarding church and discipleship are going these days it's easy to feel like the role of the pastor, the role of church…
Church… Our Discipleship Problem (Part 6) 29 Jun 201130 Jun 2011 I have never been a "handy-man". Both my dad and my brother were/are Mr. Fixits. They can repair anything, build anything, and work on anything. Not me. Now, if you…
Discipleship… Our Discipleship Problem (Part 4) 15 Jun 201116 Jun 2011 What motivates us to action? Why do we do the things we do? Many of us, like the above clip from The Simpsons, are simply motivated by what feels good.…
Church… Our Discipleship Problem (Part 3) 8 Jun 20119 Jun 2011 "The Heart" is an important, if cliche, concept in American culture. We love with our hearts, we're led by our hearts, we give our hearts away, we have our hearts…
Church… Our Discipleship Problem 25 May 201126 May 2011 Having been a student of the church for a number of years now I always love to hear what various theologians, pastors, and analysts believe the biggest problems facing the…
Leadership… Theology for the Church: A Shift in Pedagogy 5 May 20116 May 2011 Theology, that is the study of God, is essential for all Christians. It is silly to say, as I have sometimes heard, that Christians don’t need theology. The truth, of…
Church… Theology for the Church: A New Focus 28 Apr 201129 Apr 2011 From Academics to Discipleship Call me a nerd and I might just take it as a compliment. Of course I’ve been called far worse, but more often than not I…
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