9Marks website becoming a great resource

I’d encourage you to stop by the 9Marks website if you’re interested in seeing how some Christian leaders are strategically defining a healthy church. This month, the topic is “defending the gospel” from the perspective of the local church. If…

Leaving Glorieta

I’ll be leaving Glorieta this afternoon. The last six days have been, truly, annointed. I don’t know how to describe them otherwise. The renewal of friendships, the deep pursuit of Christ by more than a thousand college students and campus…

An apology and sales tax update

It has been pointed out to me that the use of LERG in referring to proponents of our city’s one cent sales tax which will be voted on August 14 is discriminatory. I used the term that another local blogger…

A visit with Dowden and Platt

After a long day of ministry and deeply moving and biblical messages today, you’d have thought Landon Dowden and David Platt would have not been open to a visit after Tuesday evening’s worship service at Glorieta. However, after simply asking…

Review: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencione Lencioni’s book is fantastic! The book is written like a novel, as the characters of a promising but rapidly failing techonology company see their board appoint a CEO…

John Baillie’s prayer and perspective

I stumbled across this prayer in Phillip Yancey’s book Prayer. It’s written by Scottish theologian and professor John Baillie (1886-1960) in his Diary of Private Prayer: Teach me, O God, so to use all the circumstances of my life today…